Thread by @libbyemmons

Congratulations fam! We have made it 249 years as a nation! We're not just a collection of people from other places anymore, either, we are our own people.

As we embark on our 250th year, we have solidified not only a national identity but a national ethnicity.

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We are identifiable to everyone worldwide — except, it seems, to ourselves.

Americans don’t pass as natives when we travel to Europe, Asia, Africa or South America.

Even when our skin color matches that of our hosts, we are always visible as who and what we are.

It’s in our persistent smiles, our pristine white sneakers, our matching T-shirts, our loudness.

It’s our table manners, our insistence on tipping, on air conditioning, on ice.

It’s the way we always lean to one side when standing in line...

...it’s even in the way we look, with bits and pieces of genetic traits from across the world all melded together.

We exhibit a culture that we perceive as universal, but are really national markers.

I love us: We are direct and confident; we stride, we do not slouch; we are bright, big, friendly.

We take charge, entering conflict assuming we will win — we’re back-to-back World War champs, after all.

Even those naysaying Americans who complain about the country do so with the utmost self-assurance and righteousness — our haters cannot escape their own American traits.

Good.

They are awesome.

Let’s embrace them — and let’s encourage our immigrants to take them on, too.

Democrats are missing out — show some pride as we embark on America’s 250th year

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