This paper is about the proposal by Rodolfo Kusch about an anthropology of the American man taking into account some of his distinguished works of anthropological thought. The paper begins with the question about the status category. From philosophical distinctions made between being and be, the author addresses the question of American identity as people, to indicate how the popular speech in its naming and silencing, constitutes the basis of what the American man may be. After describing the consolidation of the American man behind the dualism-reason myth and the formulation of the incommensurability of the American man to criteria that are discordant, we suggest another way of thinking, in this case designing an anthropology, another line to address humanity in relation to the existing order. Thus we suggest the idea that America's problem is to recover the full potential of thinking and knowing to bet on the future and this is done when reviewing income, educational and artistic levels of the American man.