What does it mean to you to be an AMERICAN?
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to me, an American is a person who has the right to say and do what they need to do to protect their country. if that means telling the mexicans to get the hell out of my country than so be it. i am an American an proud of it.
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No it doesn't mean that.. Period.  To me it means you are a free thinking, Astute, Brave and Objective individual who is not swayed by the premise of false patriotism whilst a few feather their nests.\n\nKeep up the good work pal.
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"Proud to be an American" - Lee Greenwood
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We have given more to the world than any nation on Earth. Our people have sacrificed themselves all over the world, we give money and aid to everyone. We are the place people are trying to get into from all over the world. Yes I am proud to be an American.
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I am an American citizen but I was not born here.  Americans are people, just like people from Palestine, from France, from China, from Africa, and from other places all over the world.  Some are good, some are bad.  Some I love, some I hate.  It doesn't matter where somebody is from, but what's in their heart.  About the government, yes it is a bad government.  But nobody has a right to judge Americans because of the government.  The same goes for people of other parts of the world.
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Patriotism is ONLY the love for one's country.  It has nothing to do with what you believe in politically.  People have turned the word patriot into something that means that if you are a patriot then you are always right.\n\nDo you love America?  The country, not necessarily the government.  Do you love America?  If the answer is yes then, congrats, you're a patriot.  It's that simple.  Don't let politically inclined fools tell you you're not a patriot because you believe in anything else.  All patriotism deals with is love for one's country, ok?
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I'm proud to be a born an raised American. We stand up for ourselves not blowup ourselves. We educate our children not kill'em. We all live on the same planet an someone has to make sure YOUR kids have a world to live in. America is the land of free and opportunity. All the immigrants here can't complain, I mean come on...After all, they left their country to come to the States. U.S.A. ROCKS THE GLOBE!!
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Looking for a free America. The American dream, that anyone can become anything. Great opportunities. New beginnings. America is the Melting pot of the world. In search of a new life!!!
624642
Because you mother is an American citizen, you are an American citizen. Don't worry. I was born in Italy with both my mom and dad being Americans so that makes me American by relation. Also some one who was born on U.S. soil is an American citizen.
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Based on your use of "YOU" when referring to the U.S.A., I can assume that you either aren't in the U.S. and therefore you should mind your own business, or you are in the U.S. but don't identify yourself as an American.\n\nIn either case: You are no better than the dog sh!t I wipe off the bottom of my shoe.
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What is wrong with just being called AMERICAN?
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I am proud to be an American.\n\nWe live in the land of opportunity. The land where dreams come true: If.... you want something bad enough and work hard enough.\n\nWe are free to worship or not worship as we choose. \n\nWe can say anything we want about our president without being taken from our beds at night ..and shot, beheaded, hung or terrorized\n\nWhile there are some problems with our school systems, in most  cases our children are not only literate, but go on to achieve their goals and ambitions in life.\n\nWe are a nation that cares deeply for our own and for the plight of  poorer nations. We are the first country to come running in to offer a helping hand in a disaster and the last to leave.\n\nAnd even if it makes me sound like a backwoods redneck, my\nphilosophy will always be.. "America....Love it or Leave it" !!\n\nand that, is this Texan's opinion
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Money counts. They feel superior to everybodyelse (not all)\nThey are not as educated as other nationalities on the whole. Useless about geography and other countries.\nVery conservative with a hypocrite side to them.\nNot as witty as Brits\nCan be very tacky (honoring flags, grandiose speeches)\nBut they are very friendly. Americans are nice and good overall and very helpful. And they have those good qualities to better themselves and to believe in themselves.\nDepends on what you are comparing it to really...\nThere is no perfect society in the world I think.
1013110
As long as you live in the western hemisphere you are an American - not a US citizen or resident.  The only true way that can be interpreted is to say patriot because all races & heratrages can be a 100%.
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No that means you're from America, and proud of it!
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Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN\n\n"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."\n\nTheodore Roosevelt 1907
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If they want to be Americans BE AMERICAN.