sozobE!!!
well this is what i got to say about your comment!
Racism is a social illness, not an identity.
The identity of the United States was forged under the concept an immigrant nation. A "paradyse" whose symbol is the Statue of Liberty.
U.S. identity can be found in its British heritage, particularly in language, mentality and traditions, and in its origin as a melting pot of different peoples.
Afterwards, both Natives that had been marginilized and Blacks that were exploited and excluded, where integrated reluctantly to that same melting pot, that now not only included Europeans but people comming from all the world.
It is in the things in common of all Americans were you find the identity of the United States' people. In simple things like banjo music or Corn Whiskey, or in complex events like the fight against Hitler during WWII.
As a said early, identity is not racism. Indentity is the heritage of all the peoples of the land where you were born. All people, regardless of color of skin.
