What is an American?

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.