American Fakeness

In Playing Indian, suggesting that Americans’ attempts to form an identity are incomplete is absolutely correct. The American identity is somewhere between the English and Native American identity. I feel like this only came to be because it was all the English settlers knew and were capable of knowing. Also by diverging from the English identity and staying away from the Native American identity suggests a limitation on their ability to form an identity because they restricted their free will and ability to act naturally. One cannot form a complete identity when one is modifying the various behaviors that encompass an identity. One could go so far as to say that the American identity is nothing more than a cover for not having an identity.