How does it feel to be an American?

My boyfriend asks me from time to time. He always laughs at my answers. I think he's being cynical. He knows he speaks the truth.
I wear my defenses like masks from the truth.
My European boyfriend could very well be just as American as myself.
Literally.
We went shopping for him to take gifts home. Something that they could see was from and made in America.
Everything I found is made in China. In Nicaragua. In Mexico.
That's nothing new to us.
It's not some new revelation.
It just really hit me, not for the first time, just again.

hey ms american
its me again
trying to buy a cardigan
from the state i'm in

our american cars
have foreign parts
plastic toys from
unknown parts

american made it may say
american money you will pay
american delivered not today
american bred, no way!

hey ms american
can't you see the state i'm in
still trying to find that cardigan
it's left my head in a whirl again

technically trumped

I thought by the year 2000 we'd be technically far more advanced than what we are. (Truly) And to think color t.v. was only introduced to the American public in 1950! Only 58 short years ago.
I remember thinking the year 2000 will have us flying about in saucers in orbit or glass enclosed communities on other planets. Growing up watching the Jetson's and Lost In Space really kind of paved the way for my future thinking. I think the destruction of our planet will eventually force us to go 'up'.
And to think the 21st century still has us riding about on 4 wheels, cooking over heat or open flame, living in cave-like dwellings.
I feel ripped off in the sense I probably won't live to see the day of advanced technology. That is, if we get that far. Just what will our future bring?