And Rebecca's proud to be an American!
List: Things Rebecca loves about America.
- The Bill of Rights (the first ten Amendments to the Constitution).
- The Declaration of Independence.
- Dimes.
- The Fourth of July.
- Inventing rock-n-roll.
- Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Landing on the moon.
- Louisiana.
- "My Country 'Tis of Thee."
- The Nineteenth Amendment.
- The Oscars!
- America's treatment of its Jews. Although American Jews have always faced discrimination (most states did not allow them to vote until the late 1800's), America has never passed the slew of anti-Semitic laws that most countries in the world, especially most European countries, have enforced at some point in their history. America has never outlawed Jews from owning property or forced them to live in ghettos, pay special taxes, or physically identify themselves as Jews by a sign or specific article of clothing. Nor has America ever had progroms, organized killings of Jews. (We did have lynchings, though. Minus one for America there.) From George Washington's letter to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island, in 1790, to George W. Bush declaring Jewish Heritage Week in 2004, America ranks close to Israel as one of the least anti-Semitic countries in the world.