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*American as apple pie
Cliché quintessential American. (*Also: as ~.) A small house with a white picket fence is supposed to be as American as apple pie.
See also: apple, pie

American dream

the idealistic notion that Americans are preoccupied with obtaining certain materialistic goals. The American dream of home ownership, a car in the garage, and a chicken in every pot started in the early thirties.
See also: dream
be as American as apple pie
to be typically American Country and western music is as American as apple pie.
See also: apple, pie
as American as apple pie
having qualities that are thought to be typical of the US or of the people of the US Blue jeans are as American as apple pie.
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Ambivalently settled into long-term residency, I adopted a PJ O'Rourke-like bullishness about my Americanness.
England, my England by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
In harmony with the motif Alcocer explores, his article itself works like a series of concentric circles that close in on the most specific meanings--his analysis shifts from broad ideas of Spanish Americanness, to the actual history of the main character, to individual scenes from the film, to the recurring circular motif and its cumulative meaning within individual scenes.
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Rather, Wright remained deeply attached to an essentializing notion of African Americanness into the mid-1950s, while simultaneously positing the necessity of racial-political non-alignment.
Black is a region: segregation and American literary regionalism in ... by Dunbar, Eve / African American Review
 
 
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