A person that thinks, you need to be born in Amercia to be American really, just don't understand what being an American is about. America is the world super power for a reason and that's why it's number one.
Given the fact I wasn't born here and it took me sometime to understand it. It's wasn't easy because many people didn't understand my people but that what makes America great. It's a country that understand why many of its people come from around the world to be here.
Both my parent became U.S citizen before I was eighteen, so by law that makes me, my little brother and little sister U.S citizen. I remember helping my mom drive to Sacramento California to take her citizenship test.
We all started from somewhere to be here and that is the root of America. I know my family history in America doesn't go that far back or had help to fight for American Independent but I am here now and I am not planing to go anywhere. I know, I will die here later in my life. This is my homeland now and this is all I know.
I remember working in a Italian restaurant in downtown Cleveland Ohio and it was full of Italian. I think I was seventeen years old at the time. I was working part time and I remember somebody that was working there. Had ask me a question and he was from eastern Europe. He said if Laos and America had gotten into war? Which side would I be on? I said America and he said why?
I said why would I fight for a country that I don't live in and he had told me he would not fight for America. He said he was only here for the money. Well I said good luck because you are going to be on the losing side but I guess everybody got their own reason but as for me I am not going to fight for a country that me and my family had to leave to get a better life.
I was not born here but this is all I know and all I am going to be. My kids is all American and they don't even know how to speak the Laos language. They think it's funny when they hear me and their mom speak it. People ask me why I don't teach them and I say why am I going to make it harder on my kids because I remember how hard it was for me.
America, you just gotta understand it. Like I said before it's not about where you are from, it's about where your at that matter because that is where you are living. I live here and it took me sometime to understand it because I was not accepted by some people here and they didn't think I belong here but the system is already set up for anyone that wants to be here. They will always be people that just don't understand what being American is about but that is their ignorant. The system is set up for anyone that understand it and wants to benefit from it. The American dream is for anybody that wants it but you must be willing to work hard for it. Being American doesn't mean you have to lose your ways. Being American is about understand why you are here. ~real talk~ Happy Leap Year everyone...enjoy it because getting a extra day is always nice....
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