American: (my definition)
1. any person, born or naturalized, to citizenship in the United States of America. Said person can be of any ethnicity, skin color or linguistic heritage. Almost every language in the world in spoken by at least 1 American citizen. Their common language is English. They enjoy more individual freedoms than any other person living on the planet. Uniformly individualistic, idealistic and committed to the Constitutional Republic in which they live.
At least that is the way an American should be. 8)
Your definition leaves Obama out!