This Land Is Your Land Thesis
Aaron Millsap
J. Dunn
Eng. 201
7/20/2010
This Land is Your Land The term “American” has always been loved and hated by every country in the world. Foreigners that legally immigrate to the United States need to have a reason. Do immigrants do so because they want a better life for their families, a place that you don’t have to worry about bombs exploding, or if you speak up you put your life at risk? Being an American means that you want to practice and protect freedom because the conditions of their immigrating match our fore fathers reasons. The value of historically analyzing immigration is a key argument to backing my thesis. Lets look at it like this. When the first foreigners set foot on American soil they did so looking for …show more content…
It also may be applied to any resident or citizen of nations in North or South America" I believe this is the closest “technical” explanation of the word American. Now I believe that the correct term for a citizen of the United States should be US-ian …show more content…
How many times have you heard, or even said, something like “Go back to where you came from” or anything else to that extent or more? Probably more than you think. “As of 2000, roughly half of Americans believed that whites had become a numerical minority” (Alba 88). Being a white American I can say this is true especially in major cities across the nation. Since the 1960’s the amount of immigration has been rising . In fact Bill Clinton said this in a 1998 speech at Portland University, “A half century from now, when your grandchildren are in college, there will be no majority race in America.” Slowly but surely Bill Clinton is right. I think by that time there will be so many different mutts of people that we, as Americans, will create our own race
J. Dunn
Eng. 201
7/20/2010
This Land is Your Land The term “American” has always been loved and hated by every country in the world. Foreigners that legally immigrate to the United States need to have a reason. Do immigrants do so because they want a better life for their families, a place that you don’t have to worry about bombs exploding, or if you speak up you put your life at risk? Being an American means that you want to practice and protect freedom because the conditions of their immigrating match our fore fathers reasons. The value of historically analyzing immigration is a key argument to backing my thesis. Lets look at it like this. When the first foreigners set foot on American soil they did so looking for …show more content…
It also may be applied to any resident or citizen of nations in North or South America" I believe this is the closest “technical” explanation of the word American. Now I believe that the correct term for a citizen of the United States should be US-ian …show more content…
How many times have you heard, or even said, something like “Go back to where you came from” or anything else to that extent or more? Probably more than you think. “As of 2000, roughly half of Americans believed that whites had become a numerical minority” (Alba 88). Being a white American I can say this is true especially in major cities across the nation. Since the 1960’s the amount of immigration has been rising . In fact Bill Clinton said this in a 1998 speech at Portland University, “A half century from now, when your grandchildren are in college, there will be no majority race in America.” Slowly but surely Bill Clinton is right. I think by that time there will be so many different mutts of people that we, as Americans, will create our own race