I find that as Americans we tend to be lazy, yet all we do is complain about the system that we created. We have some of the lowest voter turnouts in the world, yet we complain when shit doesn't get done. The people that do vote quickly pick a side of an important measure before they know the true meaning of either side. When big measures appear on the ballot, both sides are overgeneralized. They are so overgeneralized that the true points in the measure are muddled by these simplifications. People see both sides as black and white , when in actuality they are varying shades of grey. This causes people to quickly jump to one side without fully understanding the other and the opportunity of change was gone as quickly as how people choose sides.
Politics is not the only place where Americans see things as being black and white. Unfortunately we carry a mentality that is You're either American or you aren't." To those people I ask you to define American. Please inform me on what race American is because if you haven't noticed we were a country founded on immigrants with various backgrounds. So American shouldn't be defined as one race. In the future, race is going to become irrelevant because of the increasing globalization, so maybe instead of defining ourselves based on this or that race, we can define ourselves as being a part of this world.
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