In America, we fought for our independence from Great Britain, and in addition to this, the native tongue of America at that time, was English, to which all of this combined, creates the impression that our ancestors were either all or mainly from Great Britain, which isn't actually true. America, from its inception was a melting pot, of American Indians, immigrants from all of the major powers in Europe, great swaths of Mexico which later became significant parts of America, and slaves taken from Africa.
The first colonists of what we now know as the United States of America, was actually made in Florida, by the Spanish. The Portuguese also had many settlements in the Americas but nothing in the present day USA. The French owned a significant portion of America to which we negotiated and bought the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 which encompassed later all or part of twelve States of the union. The greatest city in America, used to be in Dutch hands, and was known as New Amsterdam, which we now know as Manhattan. Mexico own great areas of land in America, in our west as well as our South, to which later eight States would be carved out of areas previously controlled by Mexico. Then, of course, there is Great Britain, to which many colonies along our eastern board were settled by English and other European colonists, to which Great Britain saw America as a land of immense opportunity, ripe with great natural resources and verdant lands that could be exploited and civilized to the greater glory and profit of Great Britain.
From the above, It can be stated that it is no stretch of the imagination to recognize that America has been a land of many people since its inception, to which only later did this great nation become united under the banner of one God, one country, one Constitution, and one republic. What far too many people fail to recognize is that the greatness of this country does not come from a country that turns its back on immigrants or thereby the closing of our golden door, but that America lifts proudly its lamp of freedom, to all those that yearn to have freedom, opportunity, and a chance to display their talents within our shores, irrespective of their country of origin.
Further to this point, the fight for American independence could not been successful if not for the aid and abetting by major foreign principalities, most notably France, and to a lesser extent, Spain. These great foreign rivals to England, recognized that having an independent America would not only weaken England but would also provide economic opportunities for these respective countries, as well as helping to create a rival to England that would, they hoped, over time, take some of the roar away from the English lion.
America is a country of many immigrants, to which these immigrants came from a variety of countries, and as America expanded it took over lands that were already occupied by other cultures and people, or through the conquest of such. Through it all we have assimilated other peoples, and other cultures, by virtue of the fact that to be a true American, means that in one's heart and in one's actions, there is a love of freedom, of independence, of religious belief, of resolve, of a government by and of the people, and of the opportunity to pursue one's happiness.