The American Identity Crisis

The United States of the States draws its cleverness from its complex ethnic and heathenish diversity. Through this diversity the States is always changing, evolving, into a more than cultur from each one(prenominal)y enriched country by the year. This dissolve pot of cultures begs the research who amongst us is an American. The nuanced nature of this wonder has given birth to the depicted object Identity Crisis. A crisis which has make America challenge its very ideological foundation. The answer to this question is open-ended due to infixed nature of the question. An American is non a single thinker or state of cosmos sort of it is a melting pot of cultures and ideologies while heretofore maintain a of import idea of acquitdom and democracy.\nTransitioning from ane culture to a nonher is a difficult experience and one and exactly(a) that can cause a lot of confusion specially to young children. Richard Rodriguez can demonstrate to that fact in his plot of gr ound Memoir of a bilingual Child. Here Richard feels that in becoming an American he is losing his Mexican culture. This perspective even so can be seen to be inaccurate when one looks at the point of view of lance Ferrara, an associate professor at George Mason University of Law in a commentary on National Review. An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, in that location are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to hero-worship as each of them choose. Americans invite people from all lands, all cultures, all religions, because they are not hunted. They are not afraid that their history, their religion, their beliefs, will be overrun, or forgotten. That is because they know they are free to hold to their religion, their beliefs, their history, as each of them choose.  As Professor Ferrara like an expert points out, an American is not soulfulness who gives up their culture and replaces it with Americanism rather it is a combination of the twain cultures preserving aspects of both.\n...