"Ubi panis ibi patris." This simple quote summarized everything that Crevecoeur felt for America. "Where there is bread, there is one's fatherland." If your country would feed you and give you a good life, that is where your home is. Crevecoeur was born to a wealthy family and went to the colonies as a French observer. Crevecoeur felt strongly that one's homeland, mother country, was one that would bring them harvest. One that would take care of them and feed them. "Can someone who has no money and works and starves call the country he lives in his country?" Crevecoeur expressed his love of America saying there men could bloom and "flourish" from the dying flower they were in Europe. Crevecoeur's idea of America being a new start struck me as someone who had a new chance at life. In Europe, men were poor and had no food. They starved and had to fight in war for a country that didn't even put them on "civil lists". To me, Crevecoeur was saying that people coming to America had the chance to be a human being and start as people.
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