What Is America?
What is America?
I believe America is the rule of law, the acceptance of the results of free and fair elections, and the inclusion of people of all kinds in the national life.
What America is not is any specific religion, skin color or language.
This does not mean people should not learn English. It does mean that if America is a majority Spanish-speaking nation in 100 years, that it could still be an America of laws, democracy and inclusion.
America is both a political state and a product of the imagination.
This is my view of America.
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Texas Liberal is a blog of politics and political history.
My name is Neil Aquino. Here is my profile.
I can be reached at naa618@att.net.
Additional focuses of the blog are books, art, poetry, personal relationships and, also, sea life and marine mammals.
( The picture above is of the Houston Ship Channel. A narrow channel can lead to a wide sea.)
The signature post of this blog is the Martin Luther King Reading & Reference List. This list is the best of it’s kind on the web.
Another good post is my reciting the words to the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts on Galveston Island, Texas as a ship passes behind.
I live in Houston, Texas and I do sometimes write about political issues in Houston and in Texas.
I also often write about my former hometown of Cincinnati, and about the great beach city of Galveston, Texas.
I define liberalism as a role for government in the economy to help make life more fair, and a broad acceptance of people regardless of who they are.
This is why it says “All People Matter” at the top of the blog.
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Texas Liberal began regular posting on July 25, 2006.
I also blog at the Houston Chronicle as one of eight featured political bloggers, and on Where’s The Outrage? which posts out of North Carolina.
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the ever changing melting pot. yes
That’s right!
I agree. America is a melting pot. That is what is so great about our country…the freedom we have/had. But because we are hitting an over population problem in many areas we should make sure that people are immigrating legally.
agreed
You know I just had a rather lengthy conversation about this, and at the end I determined that my ethnicity is American. American culture is all that I know, and I am damn proud of it. I served in OIF, and am a retired veteran now. God damn Iove this country… (Esko, from listentomepeople.wordpress)
Esko–Thanks for your comment and thanks for your service.