Orang Amerika: Perbedaan antara revisi

'''Orang Amerika Serikat''' ({{lang-en|Americans}}) adalah warga negara [[Amerika Serikat]].<ref name="Citizen"/> Negara tersebut adalah tempat dari orang-orang dari berbagai asal muasal suku bangsa. Akibatnya, beberapa orang Amerika tak menyetarakan [[kebangsaan]] mereka dengan [[etnisitas]], tetapi dengan [[kewarganegaraan]] dan [[persekutuan]].<ref name="Citizen">{{cite book|author1=Christine Barbour|author2=Gerald C Wright|title=Keeping the Republic: Power and Citizenship in American Politics, 6th Edition The Essentials|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=40dPkS2aRZEC&pg=PA31|date=January 15, 2013|publisher=CQ Press|isbn=978-1-4522-4003-9|pages=31–33|quote=Who Is An American? Native-born and naturalized citizens|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}<br />{{cite book |last=Shklar |first=Judith N. |title=American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion |series=The Tanner Lectures on Human Values |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8n829DOw1PMC&pg=PA3 |accessdate=December 17, 2012 |year=1991 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674022164 |pages=3–4}}<br />{{cite journal |last1=Slotkin |first1=Richard |year=2001 |title=Unit Pride: Ethnic Platoons and the Myths of American Nationality |journal=American Literary History |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=469–498 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi= 10.1093/alh/13.3.469|url=http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=div2facpubs |accessdate=December 17, 2012 |quote=But it also expresses a myth of American nationality that remains vital in our political and cultural life: the idealized self-image of a multiethnic, multiracial democracy, hospitable to differences but united by a common sense of national belonging.}}<br />{{cite book |last=Eder |first=Klaus |last2=Giesen |first2=Bernhard |title=European Citizenship: Between National Legacies and Postnational Projects |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lL-FiY6xhfUC&lpg=PA26&dq=%22American%20nationality%22%20citizenship&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q=%22American%20nationality%22%20citizenship&f=false |accessdate=February 1, 2013 |year=2001 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199241200 |pages=25–26 |quote=In inter-state relations, the American nation state presents its members as a monistic political body-despite ethnic and national groups in the interior.}}<br />{{cite book |last=Petersen |first=William |last2=Novak |first2=Michael |last3=Gleason |first3=Philip |title=Concepts of Ethnicity |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Mkxdz_3d-oC&lpg=PA62&vq=To%20be%20or%20to%20become%20an%20American&pg=PA62#v=snippet&q=To%20be%20or%20to%20become%20an%20American&f=false |accessdate=February 1, 2013 |year=1982 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674157262 |page=62 |quote=To be or to become an American, a person did not have to be of any particular national, linguistic, religious, or ethnic background. All he had to do was to commit himself to the political ideology centered on the abstract ideals of liberty, equality, and republicanism. Thus the universalist ideological character of American nationality meant that it was open to anyone who willed to become an American.}}<br />{{cite book|author1=Charles Hirschman|author2=Philip Kasinitz|author3=Josh Dewind|title=The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nPsWAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA300|date=November 4, 1999|publisher=Russell Sage Foundation|isbn=978-1-61044-289-3|page=300}}<br />{{cite book|author=David Halle|title=America's Working Man: Work, Home, and Politics Among Blue Collar Property Owners|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1KCdTkq56zoC&pg=PA233|date=July 15, 1987|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-31366-5|page=233|quote=The first, and central, way involves the view that Americans are all those persons born within the boundaries of the United States or admitted to citizenship by the government.}}</ref> Meskipun warga negara terdiri dari mayoritas orang Amerika Serikat, pemukin non-warga negara, warga negara ganda, dan ekspatriat tak mengklaim identitas Amerika Serikat.<ref>{{cite book |last=Petersen |first=William |last2=Novak |first2=Michael |last3=Gleason |first3=Philip |title=Concepts of Ethnicity |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Mkxdz_3d-oC&lpg=PA62&vq=To%20be%20or%20to%20become%20an%20American&pg=PA62#v=snippet&q=To%20be%20or%20to%20become%20an%20American&f=false |accessdate=February 1, 2013 |year=1982 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674157262 |page=62 |quote=...from Thomas Paine's plea in 1783...to Henry Clay's remark in 1815... "It is hard for us to believe ... how conscious these early Americans were of the job of developing American character out of the regional and generational polaritities and contradictions of a nation of immigrants and migrants." ... To be or to become an American, a person did not have to be of any particular national, linguistic, religious, or ethnic background. All he had to do was to commit himself to the political ideology centered on the abstract ideals of liberty, equality, and republicanism. Thus the universalist ideological character of American nationality meant that it was open to anyone who willed to become an American.}}</ref>