1. An Essay On Becoming America
Though they emigrated for different reasons (pursuit of wealth or religious freedom) and were of different specific faiths, these three groups shared enough in common with the English colonists (Protestantism, the English language, similar geographic origins) to effectively fuse with the English, forming a new, pluralistic culture found nowhere else in the world. ... While many Americans consider slavery and the indirect genocide of the Indians to be regrettable, but concluded chapters of American history, the ethnocentrism that spawned those two phenomena is still alive in modern culture. ......
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- Grade Level: Graduate