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One of the most interesting things that I read about in the last two weeks was from Chapter one in Distant Mirrors. In this Chapter it described an “American’s” daily practices. What fathomed me was that the only purely American thing that was in this person’s house was a steam radiator (Linton, pg. 2). Everything else, from the chair he hung his cloths on, the soap he used, to the sugar that he poured in his coffee was all either invented or discovered by other ethnic groups. Thinking about that is almost sad to me, because even though “American’s” have become more accepting of other cultures and ethnic groups I still think that a lot of Americans think of themselves as “better than”, or that their practices are the “right” ways. “Americans” don’t give other cultures or ethnic groups any credit for what they have shared with them to get them to the place that they are today. For instance, as stated on pg. 2 of Distant Mirrors, Americans did not even clean their tee