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This is an article where Dennis explains just one of the many reasons that America is an exceptional place in this world.....
When I First Realized America Is Exceptional
To this day, a German whose grandparents immigrated to Germany from Turkey is likely to be regarded as a Turk, even if he speaks no Turkish and speaks German exactly as other Germans do. And this monumental difference goes in both directions. This third-generation Turk in Germany is not likely to regard himself as a German.
But a Turk who immigrates to America is regarded as American the moment he becomes an American citizen (if not sooner)—even if he has a Turkish name and speaks halting, accented English. If he wants to identify as American, he’s an American.
Only in America.
Only in America have people of every background come to be regarded as fully members of the majority group. The parents of the present U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, are Sikhs who immigrated to America from India. Few Americans know this, and those who know don’t care. As far as most of us are concerned, Nikki Haley might as well be a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
When I First Realized America Is Exceptional
To this day, a German whose grandparents immigrated to Germany from Turkey is likely to be regarded as a Turk, even if he speaks no Turkish and speaks German exactly as other Germans do. And this monumental difference goes in both directions. This third-generation Turk in Germany is not likely to regard himself as a German.
But a Turk who immigrates to America is regarded as American the moment he becomes an American citizen (if not sooner)—even if he has a Turkish name and speaks halting, accented English. If he wants to identify as American, he’s an American.
Only in America.
Only in America have people of every background come to be regarded as fully members of the majority group. The parents of the present U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, are Sikhs who immigrated to America from India. Few Americans know this, and those who know don’t care. As far as most of us are concerned, Nikki Haley might as well be a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
