Who is an American? This question is very difficult to answer. According to the Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary the definition is: American: adj. 1. Pertaining to the United States of America. 2. pertaining to North or South America. -n 1.a citizen of the United States. 2. an inhabitant of America. This definition is still unclear. What is to pertain? According to the same source: Pertain: v. 1. have reference; relate 2. belong as an adjunct, function, quality, etc. - …showed first 75 words of 772 total…

…showed last 75 words of 772 total…of the multicultural country of The United States of America. Works Cited Takaki, Ronald. "An Educated and Cultural Literate Person Must Study America's Multicultural                  Reality." In Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and                  Argument, with readings. 4th. Eds. Sylvan Barnet and Hugo Bedeau. Boston: Bedford,                  1996. 486-89. From this same text I also used Kenneth T. Jackson's "Too many Have Let                  Enthusiasm Outun Reason," 481-85; and "Demystifying Multiculturalism" by Linda                  Chavez, 490-95.