Who Are We -- American People
America has been called a "melting pot" - a term used to describe a country whose people come from diverse ethnic backgrounds. This, indeed, is true, and along with this ethnic diversity come prejudice, greed, and numerous forms of religion. America is a country full of politicians, millionaires, athletes, and underprivileged minorities. It is a country, some say, on the "highway to hell," where religious values give way to lust, greed, and power. Even the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, has indulged in such sins! The American people feel they make-up the most powerful country in the world and have imposed their resources and ideas where they were not wanted. Overall, Americans are a diverse people, driven by greed, and full of arrogance, yet still possessing a sense of goodness.Most people who live in America are not native; in fact, less than 1% of the population is Native American. The majority of Americans are Caucasian, many of whom are considered WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants). Although the Italian-born Columbus "discovered" the New World, the British originally settled America. The British settlers oppressed and massacred the Native Americans (whom the
y truly thought were Indians), claiming the American soil as their own. In fact, the Native Americans should have been respected, for they reaped more from the land than the British settlers could ever dream of harvesting on their own. Soon, African slaves were introduced to help harvest the land and serve the rich. Eventually, Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, Germans, Norwegians, Asians, and many more ethnicities found their way to America. The Native Americans were forced off the land and herded onto reservations. Thus is the present set-up - "foreign" peoples migrating to the Americans, oppressing the native peoples, taking control of their land, implementing a "Democratic," capitalist society/government, and allowing those among them to starve. A prerequisite to become president is that the candidate be "American-born"; this does not mean that he/she has to be of Native American decent. A feeling of arrogance has tarnished America since the moment British settlers arrived. The American people have shown this arrogance by owning slaves and servants (refusing to harvest or plow land themselves), involving themselves in wars where their help was not requested (Vietnam comes to mind), and by removing their country from the Olymp
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