In Pico Iyer’s essay “Where Worlds Collide”, imagery is extensively use to create a sense of cultural diversity as the essay is portraying what the immigrants are experiencing as they arrive in the United States. Iyer describes how “they see” “a block-long white limo, a Lincoln Continental, and, over there, a black Chevy Blazer with Mexican stickers all over its windows”. This juxtapose image was carefully chosen to describe two cultures: the Mexican and the American; and how their treatment is center on their citizenship status. Moreover, Iyer also mentions other ethnicities like “Asian officials” and “[the man] has the tribal scars of Tigre across his forehead”. All this descriptions are visual representations of the variety of cultures
