Why I Love America

America is the only country that was founded not on a race, ethnicity, or nationality but on an idea: limited government. It is no surprise then that the United States maintains the most generous immigration policies in the world. In 2015, over 40 million residents of America were foreign born—that’s over 13% of the population, the highest percentage since 1890, when it was 14.8%.

176 different languages are estimated to be spoken among students in the New York City public school system.

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America has helped many counties around the world overcome genocide and war and achieve greater levels of freedom, equality, and prosperity. For example, the American military helped stabilize Germany, Japan, and South Korea, and all three have risen to worldwide prominence.

Meanwhile, as Dennis Prager points outs, “countries that America abandoned—such as Vietnam and Iraq—experienced mass murder and other horrors. The Left, however, views nearly all of America’s wars since 1945 as expressions of superpower imperialism.”

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The New York Times’ much-promoted “1619 Project” claims that America was founded in inequality and suggests that the country can never truly move beyond its past transgressions.

The evil institution of slavery was not an American invention, but rather an almost universal institution which has appeared in most civilizations in history and, when it was installed in America, was still practiced by most countries. The contradiction of allowing slavery in a country committed to freedom and equality ultimately led to the dismantling of slavery in America.

An estimated 360,000 Union soldiers (and 620,000 Americans total) lost their lives in the Civil War, a war waged by the Union to end slavery in America once and for all.

History shows it has largely been countries with Judeo-Christian roots, like America, which have outlawed slavery.

In 1960, 60% of Americans claimed they would “never” vote for a black president. Less than 50 years later, America became the only white-majority country to have ever elected a black leader. Barack Obama was elected in 2008, then re-elected in 2012 — both times winning the popular and electoral vote by significant margins

In 1958, only 4% of Americans approved of black-white marriages. In 2013, 87% of Americans approved.

Marriage between blacks and whites has increased from 1.7% in 1960 to 12% in 2014.

For recent newlyweds in 2014, approximately 15% are interracial.

By the 1980s, more black Africans have come to America voluntarily as immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity than ever came as slaves. More African immigrants arrived in the U.S. between 1990 and 2005 than during the entirety of the evil slave trade.

Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson described America as “now the least racist white-majority society in the world,” offering better legal protection for minorities “than any other society” and “more opportunities to a greater number of black persons than any other society.”

The First Amendment forbids the “making of any law respecting an establishment of religion” or “impeding the free exercise of religion,” thus establishing the freedom of religion in America.

Not only is America “known for religious tolerance,” asserts historian Larry Schweikart it is not an exaggeration to say that “America invented modern religious tolerance.”

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America gives people the liberty to end up wherever their abilities, work ethic, and luck take them – meaning it allows people to experience unequal outcomes.

A nation that embraces liberty for its citizens promotes equality of opportunity, not results.

Forced equality restricts opportunity and liberty.

“Unlike in most societies, for most Americans being poor is not a fate,” notes Dennis Prager. “The only time being poor becomes permanent is when noneconomic factors render it so.”

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