What's up podcast? This is Chris from the PragerU social team. Today's podcast answers the

pre-eminent question of our time. What unites Americans? Americans come from every corner

of the globe. We represent every race, every ethnicity, and every religion. So what brings

us all together? Bobby Jindal, former governor of Louisiana, answers this key question. Enjoy.

Americans come from every corner of the globe. We represent every race, every ethnicity,

every religion. So what unifies us? Two things. Values and history. History. How can history

unify us if we come from so many different places? My parents illustrate my point. They came

from India and settled in the rural south. You don't get much further away from your ethnic

origins than that. Like generations of immigrants before them, my parents, my brother and I,

study the inspiring stories of the Mayflower, the Boston Tea Party, the settling of the West,

our personal stories and struggles of great American men and women. We fully adopted American

history as our own. My friend, Dennis Breger, has a special way of expressing this. He says

he has two historical fathers, Abraham, the father of the Jewish people, and George Washington,

the father of the American people. My mom still makes a mean curry. My parents still practice

their Hindu religion, but they're also as American as apple pie. That's because once you're

an American, you're fully American. The new citizen from Armenia, Cambodia, Bolivia,

or Nigeria is considered every bit as American as the great, great granddaughter of a Civil

War veteran. They share values and history. It's hard to imagine a more unifying idea, and

it's fundamentally, uniquely and gloriously American. In a speech before the Civil War,

the abolitionist preacher, Theodore Parker, popularized what he called the American

idea. Parker's recipe combined three ingredients. Only in America did they exist simultaneously.

All people are created equal. All possess certain unalienable rights. All should have the

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