What is An American?

In my opinion an American could be someone who has been born or comes to the United States to accomplish his or her goals, someone who puts their whole effort into education and a good career or someone who wants to succeed in life, anyone who understands that in life risking your self requires a lot of effort, even though some people that come from other countries and come to the United States of America that don’t valerate it, because once being in the United States of America they don’t appreciate all the opportunities they have become American because An immigrant can be considered an American because they come to a new land leaving everything behind friends, family and children without any guarantee of success in their life, but still they risk themselves to come to United States of America, a country with a different culture, habits, and laws.

An American is the citizen that really takes care for his country, studying getting a good education to become a professional and provide his knowledge to the rest of the citizens, or an American to the rest of the citizens or an American is the person that work even not being a professional, but that works hard to provide the best he can to his family and at the same time giving, his productions for the best of his country, or an American is that person that became soldier, marine, or aviator to defend his country or to defend another countries when is sent to those countries.

However; it’s not particularly from one certain place he or she can be Russian, German, Italian, Muslim, Buddhist, Christian or from different countries of the world. After going through out many difficulties that they’ve experienced to get to United States of America and establish themselves learning to live according to the culture, habits and laws, they contribute to the progress and enrichment of this country, having the feeling of what really is an American.

Nevertheless; I took the advantage to interview someone else to give me there opinion of “What is an American?” and which was my father Mauricio Galdamez and  said that: Geographically speaking every person that is born in the American continent Starting from Alaska, Canada, United States of America, United States Mexicanos, Central America and South America is an American, now depending on the ego and pride of every different person that has or has not been born in United States of America they could call themselves Americans; and when he said like a person that has not been born in the United States of America its because that person after so many years of suffering for living on the shadow of an undocumented person in the United States Of America, for not having the same rights and benefits like the people that are United Sates citizens, and become United States citizens of America through a legal program of citizenship and naturalization of The United States of America and after that probably forgetting his or her own origin and roots of his or her own country, he or she gets the ego and pride of calling him or her self American, because they really love feel part of this country.