Being an American is an “IDEA.”

The question: I wasn’t born an “American.” Years ago, in 5th grade, when I was a boy, I made myself a choice to become an “American.” Being an “American” is an idea rooted in a particular form of “privileges.” One of the GREATEST “American” is “Henry Kissinger.” Mr. Kissinger wasn’t born an “American,” but German, and just like me, he made himself to become an “American” and was one of the greatest “German-American” in U.S. and world’s history, so as Albert Einstein, etc. Being an “American” is an idea, just like being a “Liberian,” of which, of course, has never been one because Liberia’s past and…