I have decided to look at the United Nations Association of the Unites States of America (UNA-USA) as my webpage linking to Crèvecœur. It is at the heart of the Unites States’ involvement within the United Nations and gives an insight into what the Americans are doing in changing the world.

It was founded in 1943, before the United Nations was formed in 1945. The United Nations was created as a result of the League of Nations Association which was formed by a group of citizens in the States who wanted to join the countries together after the Second World War.

I feel that the UNA-USA links closely to Crèvecœur’s work, in particular in his chapter “What is an American?”

Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, those labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims, who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, science, vigour, and industry.

He had belief that every American can change the world and be inspired to help others. This is the thought that the few citizens must have had before creating the League of Nations Association, and then the United Nations, which is now the most important international organisation.

Crèvecœur is certain that the new Americans settling there have the resources, imagination and ability to change the world in any way they see is best; luckily they chose to change it for the better. And it’s true, the UNA-USA is proof of it, that Americans did cause great changes in the world and will carry on doing so.

http://www.unausa.org/Page.aspx?pid=220