Our family often talks about how Americans are of various races and ethnic backgrounds. Our kids don't have to look very far to see that — just to their own mommy and daddy. My husband is Caucasian. But we also note that many, many of our friends and classmates and family members look different from us and from each other. And while we look different and might celebrate different traditions and even speak different languages at home, we are the same in many ways, too. And one of the ways in which we are the same is that we are all Americans.