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Stereotype secondary schools parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy Chapter I American Beginnings What is an American? In 1782, the Frenchman J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur who settled in Pennsylvania first asked the question and answered it in his book Letters from an American Farmer(?美国农人书简?)。He believed that the American was a new man with the mixed blood of Europeans or their descendants. This new man left behind him all the ancient European traditions and received new ones in the New World. In North America, all individuals were melted into a new race of the American.