America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.
America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.
We, as Americans, at least - I mean, I love my country - but we're so self-righteous sometimes, in terms of, like, our nationality, our country. But we're people from somewhere else; the true 'Americans' are the original peoples. It's funny, but we're a very territorial species.
Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.
From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.
America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.