NFL, Hollywood and McDonald’s are some words that define today’s American cultural stereotypes. Despite the negativity in those words, they form a national identity as an American in the 21st century. National identity is an identity as a unified nation and it gives its citizens a sense of belonging to the country. It wasn’t easy as a new nation in the 18th century to form a concrete national identity. Right after the independence gained from the Great Britain, America was left with a great task to build a new country. The most important thing in building a country is an uniform identity as American because it differentiated from colonies to colonies. Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of America, fits into an “ideal American” during
