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America Has 3 Identities & We Forgot One
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Who are the “real” Americans…what does it even mean to be an American? Today we discuss 3 notions of what it means to be an “American”. The legal, historical, and cultural traditions that define a country and people MATTER. But to what degree does each matter, and are there exceptions to certain rules?
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00:00 – Legal, historical, or creedal: what actually makes an American?
02:49 – The JD Vance speech that set the whole thing off
09:25 – Rome was extremely good at assimilation, right up until it wasn't
17:00 – Why the innovation happened here and not somewhere with a head start
23:36 – The actual ten steps to becoming a US citizen
34:32 – The American's Creed that Congress passed in 1918
41:27 – Equality is the word that opened the gates
47:58 – Rugged individualism, with a strong sense of community
52:54 – A founding father already answered this, and he wasn't subtle
58:12 – The 1965 law that changed who comes here
1:04:57 – They came here to build it, not to receive it
1:10:24 – Who I actually count as my countrymen
1:18:49 – Where the English way of living actually came from, 2,000 years back
1:25:32 – If I became French tomorrow, would I understand France?
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