What is your definition of "America" ?

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[TahitiNut]

1. The connected continental land-masses in the Western Hemisphere ...

... designated "North" and "South."

Alternatively: A song.

[AuntiBush]

2. Excellent Definition!

You obviously took Physicial Geography!

[Bridget Burke]

3. "Todos Somos Americanos"

--a song by Los Tigres del Norte. (From San Jose, California--pretty far Norte....)

[rzemanfl]

4. Not this place. n/t

[natrat]

5. a flash in the pan

[SoCalDem]

6. A place all about "Me"

A place where greed and consumption have replaced generosity and compassion.
A place where it's apparently OK for millions of people to be chronically ill, with little or no healthcare
A place where old people must scramble for part time jobs to have food AND medicine
A place where kids are tested but not taught
a place where "my" rights trump "your" rights
A place where a cacaphony of propaganda has replaced news
A place where bigger is ALWAYS better
A place where pride and bravado are "kissin' cousins"
A place where ignorance IS bliss
A place where poor people are "responsible" for their own poverty
A place where rich people are idolized for their "hard work"
A place where $4 jeans and $2 flip-flops are worth the offshore slave-labor required to produce them
A place where an asphalt parking lot is more appreciated than the field it replaced
A place where a "little bit" of arsenic and rocket fuel is ok in our water
A place where you can look at the fish, but daren't eat them..(especially the warty, purple ones with 3 eyes)

America is a place where people who once cared about others, now care only about themselves

disclaimer.... broad generalities :).. but that's the aura we give off to the rest of the planet:)