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  "What Does it Mean to be an American?"

Take a minute to read over Carlos Bulosan's version of America.

"We are all that nameless foreigner, that homeless refugee, the hungry boy, that illiterate immigrant and that lynched black body. All of us, from the first Adams to the last Filipino, native born or alien, educated or illiterate – We are America!"

What do YOU think it means to be an American? Here's what was posted on our message board after the show aired.

 

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