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The article An American Publishes A Magazine is about the internal struggle between a writer and America. He discusses the meanings of being an American and what he sees it as. The author talks about what the soldiers do for him and how he is grateful for what these “boring and unappealing” men do for him as a service.

In the article: An “American” Publishes A Magazine By Shawn Wallace makes many references about America as a whole the small acts of assimilation he noted and how he as an American Citizen is living in America unlike others who might value America more then he does.  The author makes it very clear that this is the case as he mentions that he doesn’t feel the loyalty most people or citizen’s would have for their country in most cases. But although he does not feel loyalty towards America he does not put it below another country and vice versa. The author considers all of them equal as seen on page 51 of the article Wallace stated: “I don’t value an American life more then I value a Nigerian life.” The article made it very clear how the author although he lives in America as a citizen he sees it as he would see any other place he would live in.

Wallace Shawn is dissatisfied with living in the United States. He doesn’t love it, nor does he not love it. He expresses his feelings about Americans and how he doesn’t really call himself one or see himself as one even when he resides in America, New York to be exact. “Of course I don’t like it, because I don’t feel the loyalty to this or any other place, apart from our very beautiful planet as a whole”(51). In conclusion to his literature, Shawn states how he already knows this magazine is going to go out of business, therefore he calls this issue Final Edition. 

The following chapter, is about a published magazine called “Final Edition” was intended to have one issue. The purpose of the magazine is to inform the reader about the American life. He starts off by showing a picture of our solider doing crimeful act against other people. The people react shock and displeased to see this happen, to only see it has a normal thing, a week later. He hates how cruel our higher official can be, but thanks them for making our lives nice and easy. He believes that we should be helping each other in times of crises because a the American life is not greater than any other countries life, but they all are equal. That’s problem he views that the American people would help themselves than helping other. Which is why this magazine is only one issue long.

What does it really mean to be an American? This is a question that every american must ask themselves. For me it simply means sharing the pride for our wonderful characteristics, our ethical and moral values that represent us around the world. There is one more thing that comes as a carriage with all the wonderful things that is the burden of the wrongs that most Americans don’t realize is being done. As a nation we believe in American exceptionalism, we think we are different and exempted from any kind of accountability. The truth is just a fact that we just happened to be born here that doesn’t make us any superior from anyone else around the world. We hold the same human rights as others, the people around the world are not any less human. We are all born with the dignity and we deserve the same. The creation of our nation was the result of a heinous crime that we should not be proud of and we should all be ready to share the burden of the wrong we commit as a nation.

In the article “AN “AMERICAN” PUBLISHED A MAGAZINE”, Wallace Shawn, the author is reflecting his thoughts about the existence of the discrete nations. He begins with depicting the depth of abuse Americans were willing to perceive as normal when given by them to somebody else. Shawn proceeds with his views on being an American and the whole idea of the “United States” referring to it as a waste. He talks about the government officials and him being completely uninterested in them. “men in Washington D.C., who have a sick to set fire to cities, wear enormous crowns, and march across crowds of prostrate people”. This statement reveals that he thinks that men in authority are a bunch of phonies and that he does not believe in them being authentic. Later he also gives a counter argument stating that he acknowledges that it is because of these unpleasant men the oil and the other supplies are being delivered to him and making his life easy. Shawn does not feel loyal to his or any other nation rather he only believes in the planet earth as a whole with no boundaries and restricted area that he need a permit to travel to. He views every person as equal regardless his/ her nationality. He has strong beliefs in his thoughts but is bound by the conceptions of the majority.

In “An “American” publishes a magazine” Wallace Shawn is about reflects the complicated relationship with the Government, and people’s indifference. When people saw a picture show US soldiers physically tortured them, ridicule them and degrading them, thin unobtrusive, and other people were shocked, but no one do anything to make a change.

The name of this article is ‘An “American” Publishes A Magazine’ by Shawn Wallace. This article is about an American author agreeing with the fact that its important to think about being Americans and to care for what happens in society because of the issues that happens throughout the history of America and this world. A group of people in the American public were showed pictures of American soldiers physically brutally torturing skinny human beings in chains. Some people in the American public that reacted to this individually was disturbed but as a group collectively people did not react and didn’t have the courage to publicly cause outrage about this situation. Wallace believes in equality for all people on this planet.

Wallace Shawn is displeased with how America handled the stated at atrocities. We must care for another. Life is too short to focus on killing one another. We should be singing songs that make us happy.  In order to do this, we must put aside petty differences of race and try to live together.