I am so tired of hearing journalist, magazine article authors, song writers, jingle creators and everyone I meet refer to themselves or anyone else as being "a good American" or "the American dream". Hugo Chavez would consider himself as a "good American". He lives in South America but "American" nevertheless.
The Prime Minister of Canada is an American. Do you think he grew up with the "American Dream"?
Hollywood and the journalist of this country and the world for that matter began using the term "American" to refer to us and it caught on. Never mind that it makes no sense for us to refer to ourselves as part of the entire three continents, North, Central and South America. It was hard to come up with a short term to refer to people from the United States of America so "American" was adopted.
Along with adopting that term we lost our uniqueness in the world. It was only a matter of time before we began to lose our image as well. This country has become divided among the right, left and left out. We must put our Politicism aside and begin to think as a United country. We have to put "political correctness" and any other false front that was devised to split us up out of the way so we can grow strong again and prosper as a country and as a people. We have led the parade so far and we need to stay ahead in the future.
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