Since ToucanSam is writting novels here's mine:
" An American is English, or French, or
Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian,Mexican,African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean,Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.

An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee,
Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.

An American is Christian, or he could be
Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim.
In fact, there are more Muslims in America
than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.

An American is also free to believe in no
religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.
An American lives in the most prosperous land
in the history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous. Americans have! helped
out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.

When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet
army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and
supplies to enable the people to win back their
country!

As of the morning of September 11, Americans
had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan. Americans welcome the best of
everything...the best products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the best services. But they also welcome the least.

The national symbol of America, The Statue of
Liberty, welcomes your tired and your poor, the
wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the
homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the
people who built America.

Some of them were working in the Twin Towers
the morning of September 11, 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.

So you can try to kill an American if you
must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself. Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom.

Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.