What is an American?

Subject: THANKS AUSTRALIA THIS IS AWESOME

Written by an Australian Dentist

To Kill an American
You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.

So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is . So they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)

'An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish , Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.

An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.

An American is Christian , or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan . The only difference is that inAmerica they are free to worship as each of them chooses.

An American is also free to believe in no religion...... For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.
The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.........


When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!


As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan ..
The national symbol of America , The Statue ofLiberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America


Some of them were working in the Twin Towersthe morning of September 11 , 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.
So you can try to kill an American if you must.. Hitler did. So did General Tojo , and Stalin , and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.


Pass this around the World .
Then pass it around again. It says it all, for all of us
Please do not just delete.
Pass it on first.
Thanks!
 

Randy V

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Hear Hear!!!

Thank you for posting this!
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Keith

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Fantastic stuff - at least you guys seem to know who y'all are an more power to you. When I first awoke, the world (or at least 3/4 of it) was pink and we were proud.. But then everybody clever from the UK got killed and we have (I have) an identity crisis.

Question: What is an Englishman?

(Qualification: anyone who does not claim to be: Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Geordie, Brummie, Anglo, Saxon, Roman, Norman, Jute, Viking, etc etc Ad Infinitum Ad Nauseum)

What (who) the hell am I? Help me guys - currently I have no sense of heritage because people keep telling me if I'm English then I must be a wanker because (single handedly) I caused all the worlds problems from day one... I reckon we probably had a hand in it, but we're very much a spent force these days and we're not at all jingoistic. So, what are we?

Ever so humble...but proud to be English. (Probably a lost cause)

Serious question... Thanks... :)
 
<hr style="color: rgb(222, 237, 242); background-color: rgb(222, 237, 242);" size="1"> "Fantastic stuff - at least you guys seem to know who y'all are an more power to you."

After living living in these wonderful US of A I learned that "y'all" is actually used to address only a singular person. :))
The correct way to address a group would be "all y'all"
No I'm not kidding:))))

Used in a sentence: I hope all y'all had a good time?

So much to learn for us Europeans.......
 
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