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“The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an…

— Robert Stone

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

— Ken Liu

I do think of my work as being quintessentially American in that it could only have emerged in that particular situation that I find…

— Tom Burr

Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“pluralism today—at least in America—exists without a dominant culture,”

— James Davison Hunter

Americanism is a question of principle, of purpose, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace or creed or line of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“I realized that it was precisely because of America’s glaring imperfections that I should seek to participate in its progress, carve a place in…

— Eboo Patel

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

— Robert Penn Warren

“We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that…

— Jean Baudrillard

America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and injustice while…

— Jon Meacham

It's only when an American steps outside of their own culture that you see how integral it is.

— Jess Row