Defining "American"

Defining “American”
To define what an American is can either be complex or simple. America is full of diversity and to try to put a definition on such a unique and heterogeneous type of society can be rather difficult. But the fact that everyone in this country comes from somewhere else and that every person has the same unique drive to succeed makes it easy to define American as one type of people. In J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur’s “What Is an American?” he took the challenge in defining the American and explained that America was basically a group of European leftovers and rejects that were able to start over and create a successful new society in a new world. Crevecoeur’s definition is a solid and accurate representation of the American because he explains how many different cultures had to work together and dared to develop a brand new civilization from scratch.
Even as a European himself, Crevecoeur comes out right away and shows his admiration for the new Am...