We Come Into This World with a Lot of Arbitrary Attributes 

The point made here is a good one. And it’s more or less true, depending on where you’re born.

Americans are lucky in that we, while we are given a name and taught English, have a great number of options (as suggested by the T-shirt at right), and most of these choices are unavailable to children born into less free circumstances. 

Here’s a song (below) on religion, specifically what happens to us when we die.  It’s written by an American. Theoretically, it could have come from an Israeli or a Palestinian, though the odds are against it.