in the cities in the towns and country we work together we are many races and religions and nationalities we are the men and women of america we are also the children of america children of the city and of the country life air light eyes dark hair d came over on the mayflower while he came himself from italy both are people of america american farmers american farmers the people of america housewife businessman weaver blacksmith american a german doctor a swedish mailman a polish fireman and irish cut american we are the people of america a mixture of the people of the world america was discovered by the people of the world explorers of many nations charted the land and opened it to their people columbus of italy  leon of spain sir walter raleigh of england henry hudson and other brave exploring men who sailed their ships into unknown waters and found the land of america and the land was settled by the people of the world from spain england from england many settled on the east coast where they grew in numbers you came to consider america their home but styles change in a hundred years and ideas change the children of the settlers became dissatisfied they began meet talk of freedom to talk of winning freedom peacefully or fighting for its people of the battle one nation one to join the other nations of the world were given us the explorers the settlers the patriots the founders of our n before the nation had been formed the people of england and holland had settled in the east and south the he brought from africa negroes as slaves and settled them mainly in the south people of friends that settled in the south and midwest and people of spain as settled in the southwest but after the nation was formed more people came people from and central europe especially from ireland germany and the scandinavian countries came to america in the early eighteen hundreds to the midwest people immigrating to america becoming americans people from asia many from china and japan in the late one thousand nine hundred m early one thousand nine hundred to the far west the people of the world in america but there was movement and shifting of people and intermixing so the south became not just the home of the english and the negroes and the french but the home of these and other americans and the midwest was not a land for only northern europeans to cultivate not only for the french to farm but a home for all americans for the people were moving and mixing railroads spend the nation join the party helping to move and mix the people in this great group and our great cities with people were needed to work in the cities and build them so many more people came from europe from eastern and southern europe from poland from russia from the bachmann and central europe from italy millions of people by the early one thousand nine hundred from many countries to our country to our cities to work from the other nations north of us and south of us more people have come the people of america the people of the world as the people of the world have build our nation they have contributed to it the people of china and japan have brought their architecture of space and mexico have brought their style and we use the styles of the french much of that which is american is of the world in sports football from rugby baseball from rounders both english game tennis from central european ice skating from northern european food spaghetti from the italian chili from the spanish mexican corn from the american indian then there's our language the clothes we wear the books we read these and many more things that belong to the world are a part of the life of our nation yet from all events we have developed things which are uniquely american american architecture forms of steel and concrete and glass american forms of dancing mother's day these are some of the things we share as americans but we have become americans through this process of sharing we americans are something new and new generations of us are developing playing together growing together learning together we share our many races and religions and nationalities and we come out the people of america as we grow older we work together as americans and relax together we share the things the people of the world have come here to find things we cherish our form of govern elected system the abundance of food from the fertile soil the opportunities for jobs and businesses freedom of speech to say what we believe many ways freedom to hear what we want freedom to worship as we choose these freedoms we share as american as americans we have cultivated the land and raised the food to feed the people we have built the cities the town the business of the people the whole world has contributed to its people and its people have become american america is a land whose people shared but they knew and worked together america has benefited