Who is considered an American?

It is the waves of immigration. They have freshen and refreshed the America. You can see it. You can see there is a wave of Hispanic immigration refreshing the America just as the European immigration of the twentieth century refreshed the America. We have such a tremendous capacity to take people and then make them American.

The American system is so strong that it is not easy, it changes, it reacts but it also reshapes itself a little bit but it’s so encompassing. And into a certain extent, it’s so welcoming. If you look at the way Americans feel despite they debate about immigration these days, you look about the way Americans feel about bringing people in and being in American. The view is, if you come here and want to be an American and act like an American you are an American. That is certainly not to view in large parts of the world and in many Western countries. It’s not the view of the public that many is aware of.



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