Zócalo Public SquareAs American As … – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 As American As … https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/11/27/as-american-as-2/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/11/27/as-american-as-2/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:01:54 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=42772 Whether your American citizenship is a gift of birth and blood or a hard-earned right or a little bit of both, it can often be easy to pick and choose from different identities other than that of country. But not always. Sometimes, at home or abroad, with friends or strangers, you’re reminded quite suddenly that you’re an American. But how does this happen, and why? In advance of Eric Liu’s “Citizen Who?” performance at Zócalo, we asked Americans from different walks of life to describe when and where they feel the most American.

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