{"id":970,"date":"2012-04-30T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/?p=970"},"modified":"2014-08-05T16:44:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T20:44:36","slug":"who-is-uncle-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/who-is-uncle-sam\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Uncle Sam?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Uncle Sam is an American national symbol of patriotism as well as the personification* of the American Government (Uncle Sam’s initials are U.S. –\u00a0 just like United States).\u00a0 The legend of Uncle Sam began back in the 1800’s during the US Was of 1812.\u00a0 This patriotic symbol of the government is supposedly based on a real person, named Samuel Wilson.\u00a0 According to the legend, Sam Wilson was a meat packer in New York, who helped supply soldiers fighting in the war with food. When suppliers were sending food to soldiers they had to stamp their location and name on the packages.\u00a0 Apparently some packages were stamped with the labeled \u201cEA \u2013 US\u201d and some soldiers believed the US on these package stood for Uncle Sam.\u00a0 This is just a legend though, no one is 100% this is actually true.\u00a0 The image of what Uncle Sam looks like has changed since his inception**; but he has come to embody an old\/middle aged white-haired man with a goatee***.\u00a0 Uncle Sam is almost always dressed in patriotic colors (red, white, and blue are the colors of the American flag and thus generally considered America’s patriotic colors).\u00a0 He also almost always wears a top hat, bow tie, and suit.\u00a0 From the time that he was first made into a national symbol Uncle Sam has been found on recruitment posters for most wars that America has been involved in (see picture above of a recruitment post with Uncle Sam).\u00a0 For many people Uncle Sam stands as a symbol of pride and patriotism, while for others he represents the hard and stern sides of the United States Government.\u00a0 Regardless of ones feeling’s about this image, all American’s have heard of Uncle Sam and can recognize him immediately.<\/p>\n

The term “Uncle Sam” can be used interchangeably in almost all instances with the term “the United States Government” for example here is how this term might be used in conversation.<\/p>\n

Michelle: Have you paid your taxes yet?
\nDenis: No, I owe Uncle Sam so much this year I am waiting to the last minute to pay.<\/p>\n

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* personification = a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities
\n** inception = the beginning of something, the origin
\n*** goatee = a small chin beard trimmed into a point<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Uncle Sam is an American national symbol of patriotism as well as the personification* of the American Government (Uncle Sam’s initials are U.S. –\u00a0 just like United States).\u00a0 The legend of Uncle Sam began back in the 1800’s during the US Was of 1812.\u00a0 This patriotic symbol of the government is supposedly based on a…<\/p>\n

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