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1、AmericanIdentity & AmericanDreamsFoundingFathersAmericanPowerAnAmericanFamilyAMeltingPotAnAmericanfriend’sremarksWhenIwasabout14,myoldJewishoptometrist（验光师）,toldmeastory.Hesaidthat"CommunistscanonlyseewhatiswrongwithAmerica.Theycan'tseewhatisright.Americahasmoreopportunityforthecommonmanth
2、ananynationintheworld."“Papertiger”I.WhatisanAmerican＆AmericanIdentity?WhatisanAmerican?LetterfromanAmericanFarmerwrittenbyaFrenchmancalledJ.HectorSt.JohndeCrevecoeurin1782-HeiseitheraEuropean,orthedescendant（后代）ofaEuropean,hencethatstrangemixtureofblood,whichyouwillfindinnoothercountry.He
3、isanAmerican,wholeavingbehindhimallhisancientprejudices(偏见）andmanners,receivesnewonesfromthenewmodeoflifehehasembraced（拥抱）,thenewgovernmentheobeys,andthenewrankheholds----Hereindividualsofallnationsaremeltedintoanewraceofmen,whoselaborsandposterity（后裔）willonedaycausegreatchangesintheworldT
4、heAmericanisanewman,whoactsuponnewprinciples;hemustthereforeentertainnewideas,andformnewopinions.---thisisAmerican.AmericanIdentitySincetheUnitedStateswasfoundedinthe18thcentury,Americanshavedefinedthemselvesnotbytheirracial,religious,andethnicidentitybutbytheircommonvaluesandbeliefinindiv
5、idualfreedomTheresimplyisnoonepictureofa“typical”American.Fromthepowdered-wigged(戴假发的)FoundingFatherstothemultiracialgolfchampionTigerWoods,Americansshareacommonidentitygroundedinthefreedom—consistentalwayswithrespectingthefreedomofothers—toliveastheychoose.IfAmericanidentityembracesallkin
6、dsofpeople,italsoaffordsthemavastmenuofopportunitiestomakeandremakethemselves.Americanshistoricallyhavescornedeffortstotradeon“accidentsofbirth,”suchasgreatinheritedwealthorsocialstatus.Americansinsteadrespectthe“self-made”manorwoman,especiallywhereheorshehasovercomegreatobstaclestosuccess
7、.Manyrags-to-richesstories,inwhichpoorshoeshineboysorotherstreeturchins(顽童)wouldrise,bydintof(借用)theirambition,talent,andfortitude(坚韧),towealthandfame.American’sGreatPrideHavingrisentobethenumberoneworldsuperpowersince1776,Americansareveryconfident:Putmenonthe
