The Great Idea
I am sitting here in at a coffee house named the Jahva house and I am surrounded by joy. I am waiting for my friend so that we can have a cup of Joe and talk about our favorite subjects. I sit here and I can’t stop thinking about how great America is. I wonder what it would be like if we didn’t get to enjoy freedoms such as a simple cup of coffee and freedom of speech. I thank God that I live in America, a country where we can enjoy incredible freedoms like the right to vote in a democracy. I keep thinking… America isn’t a race, it isn’t a color, it’s a reality, a great IDEA. To be American is a CHOICE. For example, I was reading a post about how diverse America is and I found something that was very interesting,
“The story of the American people is a story of the world’s peoples. Throughout American history, hopeful immigrants have arrived to establish new lives. They came for many reasons. Some were fleeing oppressive regimes, seeking economic opportunity or simply pursuing personal dreams. Whatever the reason, each new arrival has made a contribution to the American mosaic.”
This statement fits in perfectly with the understanding that I have about American people, for example Albert Einstein was escaping an oppressive regime in Nazi Germany because he was a Jewish German, and did not want to support such activities or worse, get killed. Could you imagine if the Nazi fascists would have killed Albert Einstein? What a tragic loss that would have been. I also think about Nikola Tesla and how he immigrated from Croatia to America to follow his vision as a scientist. He became a very successful inventor and kept his company in America. On the same article there is another section which is also very interesting.
“Immigrants to the United States continue to find a land of opportunity both for themselves and for their children. The Economic Mobility Project, which profiles factors that make up the so-called American Dream, shows that the children of immigrants attain higher levels of education than their parents, and are even more likely to attain college degrees than the children of non-immigrants. Many experts contend that America is well placed to remain competitive in the world economy because it knows how to accept and integrate a diverse population.”
I agree whole heartedly with those statements and I am humbled to be an American, thank God I was born here. Don’t misunderstand me, just because I accept diversity does not mean that I do not hold a very strict standard for immigration policy in America. I believe that those who break the law should be punished accordingly.
So in conclusion, to me, your not really American unless you choose to be. I choose to be American, a choice by which I gladly live. The amount of diversity in America is becoming larger than any other countries’ diversity. We have a large population of African-Americans, Caucasians, Latinos, and Asians and those are just the ethnicities. I am willing to bet that we have an even larger diversity when it comes to religion and political views. The reason for this is we have more freedom to express those views and everyone is entitled to their own opinion even if it’s wrong. That’s just one of the reasons America is so great, I didn’t even get into the subject of The Constitution, Democracy, Capitalism (one of my favorites), Justice, and Liberty. This post is only about the pursuit of happiness and that’s theTRUTH.
