American Identity: An American Melting Pot

Many factors play into being American. An American doesn’t have to know the language perfectly or eat the typical “American food”, everyone that lives in America should have the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities. An American identity is created by adapting the techniques of life and how to do things. You don’t need to look the same or even sound the same, each American is different in their own way. There is not a description of a perfect “American Citizen”. America is a big “melting pot”. “The ideal of the melting pot symbolized the process of blending many strains into a single nationality and we have come to realize in modern times that the melting pot need not mean the end of particular identities or traditions.” (Kennedy, 27).