Essays on Nation Page 8

Recently the United States Congress has been debating whether or not to declare that English is the national language of the United States and that all instruction in public schools is in English. There is no question what the language of this country is, it is irrefutably English, it was the language of our Founding…

GDP stands for Gross Domestic Product and GNI stands for Gross National Income. GDP is the sum of the gross values added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus all subsidies not included in the value of the products. GDP is measured by the country’s overall economic output. GDP…

Colorism is a dark side to the internal prejudice acts or attitudes against our own brothers and sisters. Colorism is a seed of deceit, a silent hatred that divides us as a nation, race and as a people. We were given equality by our four founding fathers declaration through our constitution. We have a right…

What does being an American mean to you? When you search “what is an American” on the internet, it is defined as “relating to or characteristic of the United States or its inhabitants” and “a native or citizen of the United States.” Being an American or having an American Identity doesn’t just mean that you’re…

Imagined Communities The concept of nationalism, according to Benedict Anderson, has never been deeply discussed. There has never been a great thinker treating this concept as thoroughly as other concepts. Anderson suggests that one should not think of nationalism as an ideology like “fascism” or “liberalism”, but to relate it with “kinship” and “religion” in…

The Cherokee Indians were a small group of Native Americans in Georgia who changed their lifestyles to mirror ours in an attempt to fit in by making their society more civilized. Despite their attempts to fit in, the government felt poorly upon them and acted unjustly by evicting them from their land for what they…

            The “Trail of Tears” is one of the bleakest and most tragic moments in the history of the United States. The symbolic name of the “Trail of Tears” is given to the removal of the Native Americans from their territories in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama and yet a few other…

My name is Makino Toshio, a second generation Japanese-American. My father migrated to Hawaii before settling on the mainland, like many others of Japanese descent. Before World War II, I worked on a Japanese truck farm. The attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan increased tensions for all individuals of Japanese ancestry in the United States….

In our educational system we are taught about American history and the struggles that African Americans have gone through, even to this day. Yet there has always been a question in the back of my mind, “ When are we going to move onto the topic about Mexicans and Mexican Americans?” The only memory I…

Juan De Onate was a celebrated Mexican adventurer. “colonial governor of the New Spain state of New Mexico. and laminitis of assorted colonies in the present twenty-four hours American Southwest” ( Shi & A ; Mayer. 2010 ) . Juan De Onate struggled to derive support for his geographic expeditions due to his birth background…