What is an American?

I will try, because of the 4^th of July, to answer the question above.

One fourth of modern Americans in a recent poll didn't know which people did the Americans fight to become Americans. Besides the sorry state of American education I see here an opportunity to put together these thoughts.

In Mexico a similar poll will not get that result; Mexicans fought Spaniards to become Mexicans, here in Chilpancingo, José María Morelos y Pavón, a Catholic priest that joined Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, was fighting Spaniards born in Spain, and declared in a Plaza, a few blocks away from my office, that slavery was abolished; on September 13, 1813.

We do remember who did we fight. To this day in some towns, they re-enact the killing of Spaniards, and some drunks shout, ¡Qué mueran los gachupines! Death to Spaniards. Yes we remember who did we fight in 1810.

An American then, here in Mexico, is Indian and mixed blood. Also white people born in Europe, but that want to join this country are Americans. Morelos did refer to his people as Americans.

Nowadays people from Asia, Europe, and other places are flocking to the shores of America, and I mean, North and South America. This is the last outpost, where humanity is trying to go a hundred or more years, into the future, with the human experiment.

With this idea, an American is the one that knows about Africa, Israel, Mesopotamia, Central Asia, Europe, Asia, and finally America. We started in Africa and ended in America. Now we have all to come as brothers and sisters or face extinction.   It is time to end all this bickering we hear from Arizona, and instead of putting all that money in a fence that does not work, put it in the DREAM act and move ahead. The eleven million  Mexicans living illegally in the US, are not about to come back meekly to their hometowns, to face failure, they will fight and fight, until they get what they deserve, and Cesar Chavez is their inspiration.

We are all in this together, what is there that is hard to understand?

American is the one that lives in America. All America, not just Paris, Texas. Give me a break. Grow up people.