What is an American?

What???? I don't get it.

I do. It was in poor taste.

Yeah I think I'm going to apply for a tongue transplant.

Brilliant idea.

Word.

I think an american is someone who lives in america. I would be iraqi if I lived in iraq. Comprende? people who think america is this great place are ill informed. Look at what the american populus has become in the past centuary or so. We are nothing but moaping fat blobs that eat more fast food then we know what to do with. We have asshats that think they know everything there is to know, some of which will 'correct' me on this statement. An american is someone who resides in the america's. being american is NOT a belief.. or religeon.. or anything of that nature... it is simple someone who resides there.

You dont see me prancing around saying im australian.. you know why!? cause i dun live der.

We have asshats that think they know everything there is to know

I found this ironic.

But I do see what you are saying, where you live is what you are. But what if you were born in Florida, lived there for 50 years and on your 50th birthday moved to Puerto Rico, would that make you puerto rican? I'd say not; I would argue that your ideology is what makes you who you are.

You can't go around saying you're Austrailian because your parents (grandparents, greats, etc) weren't born there, nor do you have citizenship there, nor have you spent any significant amount of time in your life there. Someone with direct ties to a country are allowed to say they're from that country, but don't necessarily have to. If you're a US citizen, yet you live out of the country, I feel you have every right to say your an American, yet at the same time you have every right to say you're not. Basically...

Living in France don't necessarily mean you're French.
Living in Brazil doesn't necessarily mean you're Brazillian.
Living in America doesn't necessarily mean you're American.

Who you are doesn't depend on where you live, it depends on who you feel you are.

I feel like I'm a terrorist. Actually, I have ties all around the world. That doesn't make me french, dutch, irish, greek, polish, lithuanian, indian, or itlalian. I R American because I live here. Considering yourself Brazillian says nothing more then hey, I was born in brazil. No one is going to give you cookies and ice cream for claiming your something you are not. Being French means nothing more then you were born in France. Why are people so flabbergasted with the claim of, "I'm an american".. grats you filthy slob now go get on a diet.