AmeiCan Go Fuck Yourself! Part 2

What It Means to Me to be American.

In this day and age of the U.S. we have a  watch is affectionatly called a salad bowl effect when it comes to the people that make up our country, it used to be called the mixing bowl but the idea was that in a salad bowl the ingredients kept their individual charateristic while becoming a salad.  where as a mixing bowl the ingedients lose themselves in the process or at least thats what they want us to all think.  To this is say this a dumbass idea that im frankly sick of.  When I look around at people on the street I don't see people as Mexican-Americans. African-Americans, Polish....and etc, I see Americans.  And to clarify if you were born here and hold your citizenship here then you are American, just cause your grandpa's grandpa was mexican does not make you a Mexican-American.   It makes you a American of Mexican decent, and the same with all the rest.  The only way I could allow the term is if you hold dual citizenship, cause even the immigrants that become Citizens, they are Americans.



        Now lets get one thing straight, im not try to promote the Americans are superior additude, cause anyone who knows me knows I think that America has more flaws them most countries these days,  what im saying is that we should not focus on this bullshit of finding ways that we are different.  Be proud of where you came from but dont forget who you are and if ya dont like it go back to where your family came from cause your family came here cause they wanted to be part of something bigger they wanted you to be American.  Now remember im not saying don't be proud of your heritage, but dont let it overshadow who you are today.

Now onto a hotbutton issue: FLAGS everyone has a flag, countries, groups, companies, states, and so on.  Everybody has a bloody flag, and one contreversy is the flying of other nations flags above the American flag. Now I hate the concept really of flags and I really really hate the Pledge of Alegence, but the American flag is a symbol of our nation and to fly a flag of another nation above it or without it just chaps my ass.  Also when I saw those Americans marching with the Illegal Aliens walking around holding up Mexican flags it just confused me. If your American be American, If you wanna support Mexico become a Mexican Citizen.  Cause it makes no sense to wanna live in American and enjoy all we have here but when it comes to your pride you wave an other nations flag it makes no sense it just hold all of us back.



        Now on to the next issue about being American that no ones seems wanna back and that is A NATIONAL LANGUAGE.  Why can we just say the national language is english, why is it so hard, it doesnt mean you have to speak it but c'mon it would set a standard like every other country practically.  I think its just rude that some immigrants dont atleast try to learn english.  Its like saying i dont respect you enough to learn your language enven though a majority of you speak it.  If i was moving to another country you'd be damn sure I would learn their language,  cause what am i gonna do show up and say "Oh no fuck all you assholes im not gonna change, your the ones who have to bow to my needs."  see how rude that sounds and that what some of these people are asking us to do. again this just makes us focus on how different they are, and  if I can't understand what your saying, then i will never understand who you are.



I just dont understand why a set of people so hell bent on bluring the lines between race color and creed would want me to look at them and see how they are different when they are not, we are all Americans. If we can get passed that then maybe we can move foward as Americans. Also then we can focus on finding the global community and making it a whole but that is another issuse for a later date.



Now im not gonna lay into the asswipe racists that promote this kinda stuff, cause all they want us to do it focus on our diffrences,  see how your playing into their game, but cause if I do then i have to touch on all of racism which deserves its own blog.




So to me being American is exactly that, when someone ask you what you are say im an American then you can get into where your family came from.  So with all its flaws I love living in America I may not agree with our international policies and such but I wouldn't wanna live anywhere else.

I think that we need to stop focusing on what went into this recipe but what were gonna make of it.

Love,
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