Freedom?
What exactly is freedom? The Oxford English Dictionary defines freedom as "The state of being able to act without hindrance or restraint, liberty of action". I believe this is a great example of Antonio Gramsci's idea of "common sense" in America. Take America's National Anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner", a song that is sung at the beginning of every Major League Baseball game, a sport that is "as American as apple pie" - we are praised as being "the land of the free". Great political campaigns have been won based on the principal of freedom, many wars are fought in the name of freedom - we are overwhelmed in the media with the idea that America represents freedom. We are bombarded by stories of how immigrants flee countries where they are not free in search of the "freedom" America holds.
If you ask an American what is the best thing about being an American, most will answer - freedom. If you ask an immigrant why they came to America, most will answer, for......

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