The American Ideal

The quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson reflects the American Ideal to the finest degree. This is because Americans are all over individuality, uniqueness, and independence. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a prominent American author, and had obviously pioneered perhaps minute portions of our culture today - he would of course have traces of the primitive form of the American Ideal within him. He is one of the progenitors of our culture today. I would say he was a very independent man and had his own ideas, his own values, etc, his own, his own individuality, uniqueness and the such. Our American Ideal was shaped by these early citizens of our great nation and the path that they have embarked upon had sealed our fate - as the American Ideal is everywhere.