It's hard to understand why foreigners don't get it. We've acted it out every chance we've had, all over the globe.
And with the Fourth of July coming up, it's important to honor its centrality to our way of life:
To us Freedom's simple, it means... never having to care about the other guy.
End of story.
Why's it take a couple of generations for new Americans to get it straight? It's not like we're ashamed of it.