What would you have to do to become americanized?

Answer 1

There can be a range of answers to this. Some pundits have suggested that you cannot be fully Americanized until you have lived here many generations. The Klu Klux Klan considered anyone who was not a white Protestant to be an undesirable alien. Some insist that you speak English and assimilate into the majority culture. Others point to the Amish, a community that has refused to assimilate for hundreds of years and would probably never have survived anywhere but America. Perhaps the true test of having become americanized is that you recognize others who are distinctly different from you as being just as worthy of being counted as American as you are.