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well, there is freedom of speech where you are free to say just about anything so long as it does not directly incite violence. So that is the 1st amendment to the Bill of Rights. There is also right to privacy, freedom from illegal searches and seizures...all these amendments guarantee individual rights but there are daily violations of all of these so our court system is very busy with all the challenges. There are a lot of laws and they are always changing and they differ from state to state. It is confusing to be an Amercian sometimes. |
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JBWPLGCSE
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Is this a trick question? What's it like to be an American I guess it's better than being an American't. |
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pinkchik020
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being American is the best thing ever.
i can't compare cuz i've only been American but i love it. |
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kveryeffective
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Great we have more freedom and people here are protest more than anywhere else.
Muslims here don't riot over cartoons.
People around the world hate us but will do anything to come here.
When anyone is in trouble we are the first to show up with aid.
I don't know of any other country that gives more and has done more for other countries as much as the U.S. |
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heart o' gold
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I have some close friends who moved to America from East Germany a number of years ago.
They were shocked at how much Americans disputed authority. When the wife graduated from college I went to the ceremony, and they were both dumbfounded at all the graduation shenanigans. Their comment was that in Germany everyone obeyed. |
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callstrat
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Its great. Look at Arnold Schwartzenegger, a foreigner who became governor of california. Much is possible here. in what other country can an immigrant become so high in power? |
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Wolfpacker
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I love being American. We have freedom of speak even when it makes some else mad. We can choose where to live & go to school. We can choose where to work & quit when we do not like it. We choose how many children to have in our families.
We vote & then complain that our canidate did not win & feel justified (OK not a great thing but freedom). We can own guns with laws to control crime.
I love my right to vote for the canidates that I chose after research. I love the right that others have to live & worship the way they see fit. We have more rights than most countries &
complain the loudest but that is what freedom is all about. |
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Guitar Dood Number 1
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well in america we are free, we don't have to worry about an abusive government we lead good full (if manutonus) lives yeah i like bieng an american |
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CC
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I'm Free.
CC |
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delldude405
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Whats it like to be an American? lets see it's pretty good. I cant really compare it to any thing else because I have never been anything other than an American. I imagine that it is pretty good comapred to being a different nationality. |
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♀VANshee Texas Ranger (CVT)
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Dude! It's the greatest country in the world! There's freedom in every which way! No wonder so many people from other countries wanna come here! My country is a melting pot--you're free to do what you please--that's our Bill of Rights! People from all countries come here cuz it's a multicultural nation! And then I figure, "I'm among the lucky people in this world! I was born in the land of the free and the home of the brave! Other people don't get the same opportunity to express themselves in religion or speak their minds! It's just great to be an American citizen! |
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Flo M
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I don't know I'm Mexican but if I was American I would probably be very depressed. |
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JuanCarlosNoMore
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I like being able to bad mouth my own government. But you know, what I used to feel I could do freely ...I don't think or feel I can surely be is the case anymore.
My simply answer to your question THESE days is ...I am unsure what it is to be and AMerican.
Things are changing drastically. Up is down and down is up.
Very Alice in Wonderland. |
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Safara K
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I think someone would THINK that: THere are loads of jobs, no discrimination and good money. WHat they should KNOW is that: Jobs can be scarce. Only good money if you have good job and you can be dicrinated against. You should explain to them that, you need an education inorder to get a good job and to end poverty. You should tell them that in order to have a good life in america you have to have money. AMerica is a greedy country and you need money in order to survive. Or conections. Tell them that yeah, life will probably be better inAmerica but not much until they have money and are secure. |
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nobody
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awesome no better country |
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Licca
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brady_Bunch
http://german.about.com/library/blmus_rammst04.htm |
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stinkydog111222
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it's good to be an american---where at least we know were free...
where you can gladly stand up
and give thanks....
o''' im proud to be an american
where at least i know im free |
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luv uâ„¢
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it http://www.jenarichards.com/images/Brooch%204%20Hearts%20in%20Heart_lg.jpg it!!! |
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The Big Box
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Haard to answer when the Constitution is being suberted and the ideals of the bill of rights destroyed...
Some basic ideas: The constitution was the first organized set, fixed ssytem of governmetn in the world. It limited the Power of the Governemnt and set rights for the people. That's a big thing.
Freedom: Named in the Declaration and set into law in the constitution, this has traditonally been the ideal of Anmerican Politics. Unfourtunalty, the term is used for political gains today where it should be the one thing we can all agree on. However, that is not so now (see Gingrich and limiting freedoms to 'catch terroists')
Talk about how we have used those freedoms to change the country: How does that make you feel that you can protest (less and less) without having to fear arrests or summary judgement? and the fact that our elected leaders have to resond to the voters.
That should give you a little to talk about.
Oh,. and tyo the poster above? The Fist Amendment has no conditons. it says "Congress shal make no law" Not no law unless. No. Bloody. Law. |
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Niki K
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boring. |
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igi
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happy to be here
looking for a different life |
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U make me sick
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abbybloom1
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its great, with all these rights, we get away with the greatest of crap...and they say that our ignorance is bliss...so its great. |
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r1b1c*
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America has no constitution or bill of rights.
you see, there is no such a thing as ‘American’ nationality, America is not a nation America is a continent with many nations in it. The US never named itself the name of the United States is a designation it comes from the end of the Declaration of Independence, "WE, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in GENERAL CONGRESS, Assembled...". The preamble to the U.S. Constitution reiterated the phrase: "We the People of the United States..." (The authors of these two documents probably used the phrase "united states" in place of a list of colonies/states because they remained uncertain at the time of drafting which colonies/states would sign off on the sentiments therein.) The geographic term "America" specifies the states' home on the American continent.
It is therefor incorrect to refer to US citizens as Americans with the intent of denoting citizenship, or the United States as America with the intent of denoting a nation. Americans have a term for US citizens, we are called United Statesians by the rest of Americans, to say American with the intent of denoting citizenship or America when we mean the United States reflects poorly on our attitude towards the 70% of Americans that are not United Statesians.
Also, although some people would like to believe that America is not one but two continents North America and South America. If you think about it though the term U.S. of A. is a glaring example that this line of thought is incorrect, if America was two continents instead of one, shouldn’t it be U.S. of N.A. (North America)? We say Columbus discovered..... ? AMERICA, not South America or North America.
It is likely that you mean a 'United Statesian' |
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