Are you American?
What do you think about when you answer this question? Do you think in terms of citizenship? Cultural attributes? Certain values?
When Grinnell College, where we are both faculty members, polled Americans on what they most associate with being a “real” American, the vast majority of respondents identified a set of values as more essential than any particular identity. CONT.
Caleb Elfenbein & Peter Hanson (Grinnell), Washington Post