These are: melting pot, American dream, American character, American individualism, equality. So let´s talk about them. Melting pot. It is the term from the history. As I mentioned in the beginning of this essay, when the new continent was discovered, many immigrants were coming to the States, this process last till 20th century. The immigrants were coming from many countries with different cultures and different habits. All these people have to live together, to form one nation and to speak one language – English. But these people are so different that somebody may ask what does it mean to be an American. Probably the main people of this country were born there, so why not? But what about their parents and grandparents? Everybody is a son of an immigrant. So once more: What does it mean to be an American? And the answer is: You can not define an American citizen on the base of the color of his skin, you can not define him through feelings, patriotism or length of his nose. To be an American that is a state of mind, it must be in your head that you are a part of this nation. The American dream is a concept which is probably well known to us. We thing that it means that everybody who is living in the States has a chance that one day he becomes rich. And that was the main idea of the most of immigrants which were coming there. But I thing nowadays American dream means something else for us. It is to live like Americans do. To have money, not to be a millionaire, but to have enough money to live a good life. It means to have a government which cares about us. It means that you are free and live in democratic society. These values are sure for the Americans but not for citizens of many other countries all over the world. Equality. When we want to talk about equality we must have in mind that the definition of this concept is theoretical. It is very hard to say that somewhere is equality. It means the same chances for everybody, the same opportunities. The US are said to be democratic country but I think even they can not say that equality is one of the principles which are held in their country. It is very hard because there is a lot of bullshit in the world like racism. In this world where only the featest survive are the human rights often forgotten and that is one of the reasons why equality lives only there, where lives peace and good.