In Wallace Shawn’s essay, “An ‘American’ Publishes a Magazine”, he informs about his point of view on being an American. He states that with all the bad history, America has on its back, us Americans have to double think about being an American. Shawn believes Americans have overseen the problem and look at it as though it is the norm. Shawn wrote this essay to explain how disappointed he was in the reaction of how the Americans towards cruel pictures found of soldiers torturing people. He was very shocked to see that there was no action being done to this especially to higher level authorities such as overthrowing or demoting them. Although he isn’t happy about being American he also states that he isn’t mad about it. He just believes that America does not deserve the name ‘United States.’ Also that there should not be any borders nor immigrations because Americans aren’t any different from other countries.