Our Roots
America, is "the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed." That creed is that all men/women are created equal. "There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man/woman." Thus, America is necessarily a religious nation.
America is comprised mostly of rejects, of people who were thrown out or let go or escaped or disappeared from someplace else. In spite of such questionable pedigree, it is a land of great patriotic pride. It has always thought it important to imbue this patriotism, to Americanize every immigrant who has come here to make a new beginning. But it is a strange sort of patriotism that cannot define itself. And now the question is haunting us as we debate the virtues and vices of immigration, illegal or not, without ever having asked ourselves, What makes America, American? Most of us share very little common heritage. Most of us have had to adopt this nation's history. Most of us are the descendants of immigrants, some more recent than others. The present culture has no permanent glue to bind us; it can hardly be called a common culture. Just because we have to buy the same things does not mean we treasure the same things.
The admirable creed about equality remains the ideal that most every American believes in spite of the innumerable ways he fosters inequality in his support of the economic system, the political system, the educational system, and, most of all, that bizarre system of news and entertainment.
Free men/women worldwide, that share in the wonderful gift of equality, have the obligation to spread this freedom and root out the evil that discourages it.
T-Dad
America is comprised mostly of rejects, of people who were thrown out or let go or escaped or disappeared from someplace else. In spite of such questionable pedigree, it is a land of great patriotic pride. It has always thought it important to imbue this patriotism, to Americanize every immigrant who has come here to make a new beginning. But it is a strange sort of patriotism that cannot define itself. And now the question is haunting us as we debate the virtues and vices of immigration, illegal or not, without ever having asked ourselves, What makes America, American? Most of us share very little common heritage. Most of us have had to adopt this nation's history. Most of us are the descendants of immigrants, some more recent than others. The present culture has no permanent glue to bind us; it can hardly be called a common culture. Just because we have to buy the same things does not mean we treasure the same things.
The admirable creed about equality remains the ideal that most every American believes in spite of the innumerable ways he fosters inequality in his support of the economic system, the political system, the educational system, and, most of all, that bizarre system of news and entertainment.
Free men/women worldwide, that share in the wonderful gift of equality, have the obligation to spread this freedom and root out the evil that discourages it.
T-Dad
posted by T-Dad at 11:58 AM
2 Comments:
What would one suggest then as plausible options for equality/freedom loving Americans to do in order to weed out evil and injustices?
I agree that there is hardly a common thread or culture making Americans American. In fact, Central and South Americans have claim to be fully American as well, which for some reason seems to piss of the people here "up north".
The reasons for the differences in North, Central and North America are simply religious. The white anglo saxons protestants (wasps)in North America and the Roman Catholics in South America and Central America were at each others throats in Europe for centuries and continued to so in the Americas 'till this day.
Most religions on planet earth can trace their origins back to Christ or before with the exception of Islam. Mohammed did not come onto the scene "till the mid 500-s. It is just possible that the Islamic nations are 500 years behind in their evolutionary religious quest.
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