The American Identity has many different ideas on what its about. Everyone has a different opinion on it. Some could be against a war, but some think it’s going to solve problems. In reality half of our opinions don’t matter. American Identity is the cause of arguments between four important people. Foner, Hakim, and Vega were all different.. They are three different views of people giving their difference’s on who we are as a country. Foner’s was more of a freedom argument.
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Hakim was referring to why we are the country we are because of the individuals that the country created. As far as Vega goes, he thinks that we are who we are because of the losses and victories that have made us who we are. We study history because we don’t want to make the same mistakes that our past made. I feel it’s to benefit us in the future.
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If we hadn’t studied history our conditions of the presence would be messed up. I’m sure if we didn’t read about World War I, II, or III we would continuously not know what had happened and the world would be clueless. “Who was right”, and “Why it happened”, questions that would never be answered without history. Once again, we would be clueless is to what to do or how to solve our problems. Without studying history we wouldn’t have many ways to communicate with each other.
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