America Is A Multinational Society

Miami has a very long and unique history making it different from other cities. What makes Miami different from other cities is the profound effect the Cuban and Haitians immigrants held at that current time and forward. How major events like the Cold War (1947-1991) which was over the struggle of capitalism vs. communism affected the growth of Cubans and held back the Haitians in Miami. The rise of dictatorships coming into power causing impacts in their homelands. The differences of politics and race impacted both groups in there stayed in Miami.

America is a melting pot filled with many different cultures; moreover, the changing color of America has made it one of the most diverse place to live. Though rich in culture, minority groups suffer from health disparities due to their socioeconomic status, education, language, and political beliefs. As most minority group will find they have similar barriers that they face during the assimilation to the main stream culture. The minority group that will be focused for this discussion will be Vietnamese Americans.

Culture, ideas, and customs have sculpted this nation into the country that thrives today both socially and economically. Considering the history behind our melting pot of a country, how much of our “American” culture is American? Ishmael Reed delves into this topic and uncovers shocking truths that open the minds of the American nationalist that want to preserve the nations customs and not let other cultures consume our own “original” ideas. The article, America: The Multinational Society by Ishmael Reed uncovers the real uniqueness of “American” culture both past and present as well as good and bad. He uses well-known historical examples like the Puritans, personal experiences, the three modes of persuasion and modern ironic precedents that

What it means to be American is how you contribute to this country. Fighting for equal rights,fighting for America, fighting to be American everyday.To be American you have independence, determination to fight for what you have.To be American is to be proud of my country and defending our rights and our freedom rights.Being American is something we should be proud of we have a lot of freedom. For example we choose what school,church,study,travel,etc we want.Being American means were all treated equally no matter what race,or culture you're from. Being American gives us the right to be ourselves.

From its humble beginnings, the United States of America has expressed its intention to assist individuals who desired freedom by serving as an exemplar of liberty. Originally, Americans sought to preserve their republic by avoiding all foreign altercations and external constraints. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, in his first inaugural address Thomas Jefferson warned his audience of the potential dangers of foreign affairs by stating, “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none,” pleading for a delicate balance between national security and commerce. This sentiment on foreign policy was reiterated on July 4, 1821, by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams when he said, “America does not go abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.” At the dawn of the 21st century, the implications from Adam’s statement are no longer consistent with the demands of American national security. The key tenets of the Bush doctrine, democratization and preemption, have deviated from Adam’s vision and redefined United States foreign policy for the 21st century.

In America and other countries of similar and contrasting cultures, we like to be right, we like to be on top, and we want to be recognized for both respectively. Competition is an underlying theme in so much of what we do in our daily lives. Whether it’s getting a better grade on a test than your friend, winning a football game or even speeding up faster than the car next to you when the light turns green. Competition, whether we like it or not, surrounds us and we participate in it willingly. We all want to stand on that podium and receive the gold medal, for then we are better than someone else and we can look down upon him or her because we have achieved something they have not. This competition and trying to be better than the person

Throughout American history many events have taken place, from the arrival of the first colonist to the Boston Massacre and even the formation of the first Continental Congress. But some of the more impactful events that are significant in my opinion that have made America the superior country that it is today, are the importation of slaves into the colonies, the Intolerable Acts and the Boston

The book “The Yin and Yang of American Culture A Paradox” by Eunice Yinter. The book is quite interesting to read, and learning the views of a person born and raised in Asia was very revealing. It can be difficult to determine other people's views of Americans from casual observation. Five of the virtues listed as Yang in the book seem true to me and related to each other. These virtues are: dreaming the impossible, frontier spirit, daring to be yourself, individual merit, and competitive spirit.

Many events have occurred in American history that have shaped and defined some of the most influential people in our country. Individuals such as Martin Luther King Jr, Thomas Jefferson, Rodolfo Gonzalez, Hughes, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Malcolm X have been through many hardships in their lives on their way to achieving the American dream. They have endured tough experiences and know what it means to be an American. All of these individuals have the characteristics of determination, courage, and the motivation to fight against social injustice that make up a true, hard-working American.

In his essay, “America: The Multinational Society,” Ishmael Reed gives his readers no context for his expertise in the subject of multiculturalism, though he is black and has seen first-hand his family’s culture mixed with other cultures present in the United States. His best examples of cultural blending happening, and indeed being a positive thing, is when he compares the attitude of xenophobes to those of the actual colonial-era Puritans, who were a stunningly brutal people. Reed’s examples of the failings of other societies that attempted to remain homogenous, most notably Germany’s Nazi regime, (“for wasn’t Adolph Hitler the archetypal monoculturalist who, in his pigheaded arrogance, believed the one way and one blood was so pure that it had to be protected from alien strains at all costs?”) (Reed, 356) provides a good basis for his pro-cultural blending stance, but ultimately Reed does not go into the effects of blending cultures in the wrong ways enough to be effective in his message.

Our nation is no longer the nation of “the American dream”; instead it has become a “melting pot” for all types of wrongs against its own communities. Do you consider yourself a millennial, the generation that will change all that is wrong in our nation? People born in the late 80’s up until the beginning of the new millennium might be the answer to ratifying every single wrong turn our nation has taken. Every day it is the younger generations that are taking a step forward, trying to restore what once was called, “the greatest country in the world”; certainly, it is only with the decline of our nation that this has been made possible. With an ever growing negative information by the media and the state in which we are inheriting our nation

In America, when someone points out all of the flaws of the great nation it is common for an American who no longer wants to argue to say “Well we went to the moon, what exactly did your country do?” with an extreme sense of condensation. And, while it is true that America valiantly went to the moon, most countries now have a considerable presence in the space community and while America is still a leader, it’s mostly just because they were a lot richer than the rest of the world, for example let’s say the USSR or the other extremely morbidly crazy semi world power of the time, China. It’s really funny that while those countries can say things like “We didn’t elect Putin” or “We have the great wall of China”, both very brave or interesting

Miami is well known as a city where a lot of immigrants migrate to and continuously grow in numbers. The increase in the Hispanic population is usually due to family ties that influence other members to relocate to the city. Persuasion of a better life and opportunity for their children is what influenced my parents to move to Miami in the mid 1980’s. According to my parents the diversity in languages and cultural background made it

William Wordsworth is a notable poet of the 1800s for his frequency to write of things of remembrance. In his Petrarchan sonnet, "The World is Too Much With Us", he nostalgically writes about a time when the communion of humanity and nature was far more prominent to people. He angrily states that human beings are too preoccupied with materialistic matters and have lost their touch for the spirituality of nature. He brilliantly uses sensory modes to convey his feelings through symbolism, metaphors, and similes as to communicate through his eloquence the idea of returning to a communion of nature and humanity.

In the essay “America: The Multinational Society,” Ishmael Reed wrote “On the day before Memorial Day, 1983, a poet called me to describe a city he had just visited. He said that one section included mosques, built by the Islamic people who dwelled there. Attending his reading, he said were large numbers of Hispanic people, forty thousand of whom lived in the same city. He was not talking about a fabled city located in some mysterious region of the world. They city he’d visited was detroit” (92). Reed was giving us a vivid illustration of his surroundings, a world that “... Yale Professor, Robert Thompson, referred to as a cultural bouillabaisse …” (93).