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What does it mean?
Title of a book or show suggesting universal identity.
In plain terms
Everyone can be American.
What can you take from it?
Inclusive national identity.

Where it applies

  • political commentary
  • cultural identity

Putting it to work

  • promote inclusion

Another view

Oversimplified.

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