Argumentative Essay On Being An American

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Being an American is to come as yourself there is no expectations of what you should or should not be. To be an American you do not have to be from America you just have to embrace the American way and commit yourself to being an American. You do not have to be any specific type of religion or race you don't have to have a specific ethnicity background. Being an American is not trying to be like others it's trying to embrace the American way and be yourself and not trying to act like other people. Being an American is embracing the right of free speech.

In the Essay “Growing up asian in America” written by Kesaya E. Noda she says
“Sometimes when i was coming up as a kid, my identity seemed to hurtle toward me and paste itself right to my

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