What makes America "America"?

The inmates are running the nuthouse.

Americans

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from a non-american point of view:

1) a black man is your president, and on top of that, he is cute!!!!!!
2) hillary clinton is your secretary of state. and she was running against obama for the democratic ticket. still, he had the brains to realize she was necessary for his team, and she had the brains- and dare I say, LACK OF EGO- to take one for the team. The team beeing: a more liberal, multicolored-multisexed-multieverything america (remember the "melting pot"?). when she tolerated the whole lewinsky affaire, she proved to me that she was committed: not "standing by her man", but "standing by her cause". if she could take that much humilliation because she wanted a more liberal and tolerant america, then she has all my respect. chapeau, madame rodham-clinton
c) JAZZ
d) BLUES
e) FILM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
f) Paul Auster
g) Ernest Hemingway
h) Tennessee williams
i) Arthur Miller
g) Truman Capote
h) Mark Twain...and my favourite character in a book ever my darling Huck Finn and his unforgetabble lines "all right, so I'll go to hell" (might want to google an article in "El Pais" from Spain called "El regreso del amigo americano")
i) martin luther king
j) harvey milk
k) dupont circle in washinton dc, and the church hanging the rainbow flag
l) ROCK AND ROLL
m) Seinfeld
n) hot dogs and pretzels
i) any new york deli
l) ITS CAPACITY FOR SELF-CRITICISM
m) marilyn monroe
n) cary grant
o) humphrey bogart
p) bette davies
q) clark gable (lord of the hotties)
r) grace kelly (her graceness embodied)
s) gene kelly
t) audrey hepburn
u) mrs. robinson
v) al pacino
w) robert de niro
x) the godfather saga
y) george clooney
z) life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness....
see....I could just go on....and I am not even an american....

the music!!! movies and art.. also the american dream
thing, that one shall find one workfield that he or she loves and give everything for it and just do it no buts or ifs.. thats america for me.

From point of view of Europeans - DEMOCRACY an FREEDOM of speach more then in any country! That was a case till 8 years...

Americans