Persuasive Essay On American Citizenship

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It’s no secret that everyone in the world is born into a system of rules, norms, and everything in between. There is a constant cycle of life and death, with the expectations of the bodies we are born in building and acting around others and the expectations to help promote a society farther. The problem that we as humans are constantly coming to, though, is who exactly is in power and what makes up that power. Is there a duty that one owes to their nation in the way that they act or is it their own life to lead? Are humans living for themselves or for the promotion of something more? There has been a progression of time, changing to adapt the needs of the majority being executed whether or not it is beneficial to the minority. What it means …show more content…

Hundreds of men, women and children came across the ocean to form what became the United States, but now when people do the same thing, they are denied the right of citizenship. Refugees, people exiled from their country for a countless amount of reasons, have been stripped of citizenship from one country and are denied citizenship in another. This goes beyond the United States, but for most countries around the world now. Citizens in the United States see this as completely justifiable, it is their country with their own sets of laws and requirements that need to be understood before accepting new members into their society. These laws and requirements, though, are merely an underlining of the effects of biopoliticized way of …show more content…

These rights vary from country to race to gender across the board, lining a person up for a role that they will execute for the promotion of their immediate and overall society. The giving of an identity is expressed here, and just as one has the ability to give identity, one may also take it away. An example of this is with the Nazis before World War II, with Adolf Hitler’s obsession of a political and racial purity. To begin with the eventual demise of the Jewish people, the Nazis were ordered to strip away their rights and limit their connection to the outside world. From here, they were merely a minority in the community, herded into ghettos and eventually sent away to various camps. They were stripped of not only their citizenship, though, but their humanity as they became stars pinned to shirts and another pair of shoes to walk past at the Holocaust Museum. This new definition of what it is to be a citizen and a human did not end with the fall of Adolf Hitler, but continues to this day. In the United States alone, roughly 4% of the population is made up of undocumented people of all ages. This is a combination of immigrants, refugees and those previous citizens that have had their rights stripped away. The restriction of citizenship results in a restriction of rights that one human can possess while living amongst millions that will never know what that would

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