what is an american?

In the essay the croever person basically generalized america by saying that they abandon their cultures and adapt to the new customs of america. I honestly think that his view on america is really really wrong now. Then in time, he had a valid arguement because the puritans left england and just started their own country. They also abandoned englands customs altogether and that may have been wrong in his eyes, but they really did not have any other choice because they were really unhappy in england. So he does have a point, but he does not consider their point of view. He also says that americans completely throw out their old cultures so that they can adapt to the new, american culture. But actually, the pilgrims kept a lot of their old cultues and dished out the ones that they did not like. This also applies to present day, mexicans, black, asians, and other nationalities also express their culture all the time. So even though they were not actually in their native land, they were not just completely abandoning their cultures. He also speaks of america as being a "melting pot". A melting pot usually has a lot of different erbs and spices. So by comparing this to america, he is stating that there are many different nationalities in america that are mixed together. In my opinion, he is right in this one case because america has almost every nationality here living together. Oposed to cuba that only has cubans. So I think that an american is basically everything because there are so many different cultures that are expressed within our borders.