I am an American

How have diverse Americans engaged questions of citizenship and identity in their everyday lives following the collective national trauma of 11 September 2001? Cynthia Weber explores through video the lived experiences of those who say "I am an American" in a different voice. openDemocracy features her work in the days leading to 9/11's sixth anniversary.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• 9/11
• citizenship
• america
• identity
• US-Mexico
• border

[Leucoandro]

wonderfulskirt,

Have you ever set foot in America? How would you know if we use Native American Words?

So, I guess you are saying words like papoose, moccasin, kayak, moose, pecan, powwow, toboggan, chipmunk, hickory, bayou; cities and states named Alabama, Arkansas, Alaska, Chicago, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Manhattan, Milwaukee; or Regions named things like ouachita, Ozark, Shenandoah, etc, etc, etc are all British words that Americans brought over with them?

Wow

[Alextube30yahoo]

America is the country with the best people and the greatest diversity in the world. In the same time system in America is so repressive . A lot of people got screwed by that system and I am one of them. I am not American citizen because I never got American paperwork, but I AM AN AMERICAN because I love American people and diversity - NO ONE CAN TAKE THAT FROM ME!!

Greetings from Serbia!!

[TheGefro]

@Alextube30yahoo ''Greetings from Serbia'' Not many people in this world... like the serbs! After the shit that happend in Bosnia... 

[Alextube30yahoo]

@TheGefro Dear friend, I am not sure what you had tried to say. Could you please explain that a little closer to me?

[TheGefro]

@mvp111MCA He is Muslim.... 99% of Muslims are peaceful.... would you call christans terrorists if Osama Bin Laden was Christan??

[TheGefro]

@Alextube30yahoo I wouldnt say ''Greetings from Serbia!!'' A lot of americans remember what the Serbs did in Bosnia....

[TheGefro]

@Alextube30yahoo I wouldnt say ''Greetings from Serbia!!'' A lot of americans remember what the Serbs did in Bosnia....

[mvp111MCA]

00:42 that s a Terrorist ! Not American ! he bows to Saudi Arabia

[thundershaft4u]

youtube "lindsey williams july 2011"

get ready

[preemptivestrike20]

@louie111887 Racist.

[Arctific]

Free to disagree. Free to seek change. Free to petition the Government for wrongs suffered. Free to spread your mind and protest what is bad. Free to approve of what is good.

Free to say it.

Brave to look at what needs fixing.

Government derives it's just powers from the consent of the governed. I am an American.