The Outsiderer

I had to write an essay, I'm pretty sure it was one of those timed essays for like a final. This was for English Composition. I got an A on it. So thats pretty awesome. The topic was, "How to make America better" and so I wrote:

To make America better most people would think to add something, an idea, or something Americans should add to their lifestyle. Instead we should make America better by removing some ideas and some aspects from out everyday lives. Other countries frown upon Americans for what we do and believe in. The other countries and culture don't understand why we do things unnecessarily. For example, only in America where one would see us putting useless junk in our garages and park our expensive cars outside them. Other people don't understand why Americans do that and to be honest, most Americans themselves don't know why they do that either. It is those kind of ways about our culture that we can better ourselves by removing unnecessary ideas as such.

Americans can't ask themselves what can be removed from their culture. They should ask an outsider, someone who can be honest and tell us how to make America better. We should ask what they think of us and in turn we should prepare for a long list of ideas from the outsider. Of course, this long list of how to make America better is coincidentally the same or almost same list as our "Stereotypes". It's hard for an American to make the list because they would be proud of some of the stereotypes and that is perfectly fine but if getting rid of it will make America then then it should be rid of. It's between self dignity or America. An American would argue that getting rid of some ideas would make us less American and we'd lose our American identity. Not necessarily, we as Americans always put an American style or twist on everything we come across. For example, hamburgers and hot dogs. Those were invented in Germany but all of a sudden Americans made it into an aspect in our lives such as bbq's, baseball games and so on. Americans put their style on anything like music, food, and clothing.

An outsider doesn't even have to study our culture to know what to put on the list. The outsider mentions a study that was done in the United States. The study was testing if a pizza could be delivered to a house before an ambulance get there. In one of those tests it found that indeed a pizza was delivered before an ambulance arrived. Americans would be skeptical of the statement but at the same time might take a step back and say, "wait, maybe the pizza delivery was faster..." The sad thing is that the statement is not true. The true study was if a person believed it or had to think about it. It's sad to think that a pizza guy could get to a house before an ambulance could, it's even sadder for us to think hmmm maybe it did.

That was basically the essay, as I was typing it, it was super confusing and really boring, so sorry if you read this far, and if you didn't, then thanks again douchemonger.