Question

In The Article "The Discovery of What It Means to be an American?" Why is to be an American a "complex fate"?. be specific!

Answer 1

James Baldwin has mentioned in the article "the discovery of what it means to be an American " published in 1959 as with "question of identity " deals with the fate of American as viewed from exile in Paris

In that Baldwin directly quoted to Henry james that "it is a complex fate to be an American " and goes on stating about how complex the fate was in Europe

In that she mentioned about America's history, her aspirations and her peculiar triumphs, her even more peculiar defeats and her position in world are all so profoundly and stubbornly unique, that the every word america remains new and almost completely undefined.

According to her no one in the world seems to know what it describes, and not even by the people who call themselves American.