That may well be because being an American enables them to discover who they are.
The technicality of my being an American enabled me to spend a full year in India.
A new online project, "My Fellow American," enables people of all faiths and backgrounds to share a story about a Muslim they know personally.
But Jean is also Haitian-American, enabling Western Union to continue reaching out to the people who come from outside the U.S. to look for work.
In the phase advancing study [21] Caucasians with both light (blue and green) and dark (brown) irises were enrolled, as well as brown-eyed African Americans, enabling a comparison of the relative contribution of iris color versus race.
The Kidney Cancer Study, one of the largest epidemiologic studies of RCC in the United States, is the first to enroll a sizable number of black Americans, enabling studies of risk factors in this racial group.
For instance, the bomber's use of the terms "broad" and "negro," for women and African-Americans, enabled Fitzgerald roughly to calculate his age.
The degree to which Republicans would tolerate a racist president or see his racism as relatively unimportant will be seen by many Americans as enabling racism.
Most (73%) of our GDM sample is ethnic minorities, including Asians, Hispanics, and African-Americans, thereby enabling our study to generate findings which are generalizable to women from ethnic groups at high risk for diabetes.
Meanwhile, white fear of black participation in American life enables the mass incarceration of African Americans and the sort of revenue-driven "policing" identified in Ferguson, Mo.
