In Letters from an American Farmer, Crevecoeur writes that a person can call himself an American no matter what their lineage is. Past bloodlines doesn't make an American, loyalty towards the country is what matters (among other things). So why is it that when Crevecoeur wants to join the Indian community during the revolutionary war, he hopes that a young man who has shown interest in his daughter will come along? Does bloodlines not matter when it pertains to being an American, but when it comes to his family his thoughts are different? Or is it because when he is talking about intermarriages it was between English, Dutch, French, and etc. descendants , but when it comes to Indians, they are an inferior race and therefore he doesn't want to have intermarriages with them?
Claire, Eugene, Reem, Theodora
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