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Quote by: Chancellor  But it isn't about the nation's laws, it's about the idea of America - our core values, what defines us as Americans. If someone doesn't love our core values, our collective American identity, then that person is kindly invited to go live in some other country more to his liking. |
Although you're changing the context here, I'll go along with it for the moment.
Let me say that I don't think anything defines me as an American aside from having been born here. Americans do not have any special understanding of things that the rest of the world cannot attain. Therefore, Americans are not necessarily unique from other people in the world, except in the sense that they were born in America and other people in the world were not.
It stands to reason, then, that I may not love "our" "core values", or "our" "collective American identity". Yet I still choose to live here. What do you say to that? Would you force me to leave, if it were in your power?
- Rob