Colonel Sanders

http://www.americanunderdog.com/article.php?id=KFC

I have chosen the story of Colonel Sanders and the story behind KFC as it mimics much of what De Crevecoeur says about the “second and better class” in a contemporary America. At the bottom of page 54. referring to the second class of Americans. He talks of the next generation of Americans who can fully benefit from what America has to offer after what the initial settlers had done. This being the groundwork of building a substantial civilisation that future generations could develop in. De Crevecoeur goes on to describe the second class as “respectable for their industry, their happy independence, the great share of freedom they possess, the good regulation of their families, and for extending the trade domination of our mother country.”

These traits apply to what is written in the article about Harland Sanders (Colonel sanders) and the way that he seised the opportunities life in America gave him c.1900. The fact that he came from a humble background where he had to become the man of the house at the age of seven after his father’s death shows that he was left to regulate the family as a father figure a lot like what De Crevecoeur expected of the second generation. His business is now global “KFC is one of the largest fast food franchises in the world” mimicking about what De Crevecoeur says about “extending the trade domination of our mother country”.