Identity

The American identity to the world is much different then the American identity within our borders. Growing up we are taught that this is the land of opportunity, you can do anything, and everyone is accepted, the land of the free, home of the brave blah blah blah. It is true, that it is mostly possible to achieve anything you put your mind to , but statistically for a lot of people, it is an unrealistic notion. Low-income neighborhoods all across the nation are terribly limited through socio-economic boundaries. Although we let anyone in our borders (or we used to anyway), there is still rampant racism, and gay marriage has hardly been able to gain a foothold in a lot of states, drug users are thought of as lower life-forms, and with the recent War on Terror, anyone from the middle east is immediately stared at and suspect of being a terrorist. The only true American Identity any of us can unarguably unite under is that we are consumers, ruled by capitalists, mostly oblivious to consequences of our consumption. I would like to think of myself as Alaskan, but the truth is, the "Alaskans" identity is one that I wouldn't want to associate myself with under any circumstances. (Rape the land, there's always enough, Throw your trash in the backyard, Government can't tell me what to do, own a gun, drink beer.) I am Alaskan, though, and more so, I am American, and that I think proves that putting an identity on an entire group of people is just as lame and pointless as categorizing people in your highschool by who they hang out with.

With all civilian casualties put into account, the environmental catastrophes that our corporations sponsor, the coups that our CIA have executed, and our government's successive failure to provide progressive leadership in the climate change crisis, I can only hope that at best people around the world see the American Identity as being Innocent, brainwashed misinformed tools who do not truly understand the destruction we salute.

What's more important, is that I identify myself as a member of this Earth, not just a member, but THE top predator and as an American, the most powerful top predator the earth has ever seen. To quote spiderman -

"With Great power comes great responsibility."

I am Alaskan, mother fucker.

I tend to identify more as an Alaskan rather than an American. As you can plainly see.

France's position is interesting...for hundreds of years their little nation (smaller than the size of Texas) has fought through plenty of cultural impositions from nasty foreigners. So aside from what is it, parts of Belgium and Canada, France is the only heart of their culture. inb4 PHRANCH MILLUTARI SUXXXXXX.

As for an American identity...well the ideals attributed to that nebulous thing of American identity...I would hope are at least the concepts of work-your-way and accept new people and ideas...indeed thats the only thing thats kept us in our seat of global superpower methinks.

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I am nothing, I am no one.

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If there is an American identity I don't want to see it.