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Defining an 'American' Shouldn't be This Hard

"Where are you from?" It is a question I used to get all the time, no matter where I was in the country, because of my Spanish accent, but I don't hear it as much anymore. Some time ago I decided that I finally lived in a post-accent society. But I was confronted with reminders of my "otherness" Tuesday when I opened the New York Times and read about the plight of Mebrahtom Keflezighi, the amazing winner of the New York City Marathon. He was the first American to win that race since 1982. Keflezighi, you see, never ran competitively before he immigrated to the United States at the age of 12, ...

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