The American character

What is the American character, as opposed to other nations? Sarah Hoyt, a native of Portugal, now an American who has lived in the U.S. for at least three decades, takes a stab at it this morning. These are the qualities she believes make us unique.

We're playful. We spontaneously organize in clubs and associations. We don’t take orders well. The flip side of that last one is that we have a "we fix it" mentality.

Sarah adds,

This “We fix it” thing is why Americans open their purses and their hearts to help the less fortunate, whether it’s the person with too many kittens to feed down the block, or the victims of the tsunami across the world, in numbers the rest of the world doesn’t even come close to matching.

More qualities of the American character:

We are flexible. America is the least racist, homophobic, sexist and any other discriminatory thing you can think of. We have a positive craze for self-improvement. The future comes from America.

Sarah concludes,

Come and give me a hand. We’ll come out of this collapse thing better than ever, stronger than ever. The future? Man, is it going to be snazzy, and new, and completely unexpected.

Boy, are you going to love it!

You ain’t seen nothing like us yet!