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"What is America, and what makes an American"
Claus Schmidt
What is America?
Since it's discovery, America was compare to Europe an "experiment" of modern times. America is a immense country, that consisted of nature and aborigines 400 years ago evolved within this short time frame to the melting point of different cultures, traditions and behavior that come from all corners of the world to seek a better life, freedom from their government, religion. This is why it is called the land of opportunities. Today America is, after the "Cold War" which became the World's superpower. In order to seek the answer to the question „What is America?", we should flick back the pages of time.
America is largely based on Western culture with influence from the native peoples, the African slaves, and more or less from immigrants from Asia and other parts.
From my point of few are two fundamental requirements that are responsible for such a development the USA from a immigration country to its current position as superpower nation. First of all, I would like to point out the diverse varieties of climate environments, which the United States is in. This favors the crop production and other branches of the agriculture, which leads to a relative high abundance of these goods. That not only supplies US market, but these products are also exported to other parts of the world. Further on, the United States is surrounded by tow large oceans, situated between Asia and Europe which gives them economic and strategically advantages. Where as Europe for example, due to countless wars which made it untamable, gave the US after the "independent war", time to develop without any interference from the outside.
In earlier history of the United States, immigrants who came mostly from Europe, imported the ideas of democracy and equality which where embossed in the...
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