Question

, answer the question posed by immigrant Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur:

“What then is the American, this new man?”

Had he actually become someone different from his forbearers? And does that supposed difference -- whether positive or negative -- perhaps still persist?

Answer 1

Michel-Guillaume Jean de crevecoeur under the pen name J. Hector St. John "What is an American?" Letter III of letters from an American Farmer", written by him in late 1760's-early1170's, published 1782.

"What then is the American, this new man? asked a French immigrant who had become a established New York person and gentleman farmer in 1760's. How is he different from a European? How does this deviation make him a "new man" on the face of the earth? What does his remarkable identity offer the world?

The Scenery image above depict the New York Catskill Mountains in 1761, the personification of American expanse and oppotunity, far from the class-locked societies of Europe.

In this book, The Frenchman Michel-Guillaume Jean de crevecoeur amassed his writings on American culture and agriculture into the "letters" to a fictional English recipient, publishing them in London in 1782. The most popular of these letters in the third "What is an American"? - long considered the classic statement of "new man", individual, self-reliant, realistic, hard working, a stolid man of the land, self-defined goals and reject the ideological zeal.

Characteristics of American and American Culture:-

1. Enormous.

2. Extremely independent and invidualistic.

3. Overweight.

4. believe in freedom of choice.

5. Follow the rule of law.

6. Hard working.

So we can say that Americans like their forbearers.