America

What’s something most people don’t understand?

Americans do as Americans do when in America.

American life is just like any other.

Media and Politics may seem to make it look like something else but it is not.

We are just Americans born in America.

Raised in the Suburbs, the City and the Country.

But we all watched Saturday Morning Cartoons, we all know who the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are.

Hulk Hogan told us to say our prayers and eat our vitamins.

We know who the Bad Guys and the Good Guys are.

One person does not represent all of us but we have a collective consciousness of what is good and evil because of cartoons and. Omicron Books.

I worked at a Starbucks in 2013 as a Cashier. I recall a conversation between a Customer and a Barista.

The Customer had just gotten back from Italy and kept raving on about how cultured Italy was. I felt a sense of resentment because I feel that America posses as much culture as Italy.

It made me think of how I identified as Irish or Scottish when I was younger as if not being an American was “cool.”

Americans don’t want to identify as Americans because they think that it will affect their Social Status.

But being an American and celebrating American culture is something to be proud of.

What people don’t understand about America is the anxiety that comes with being yourself as an American.