Immigrants have created America to be what it is today, and have forever been working together as one to protect and be patriotic before this country was even founded. Two articles, written by Anna Quindlen and John F. Kennedy both have views on immigrants becoming American citizens, and how everyone in this country is so different, but we’re held together by our patriotism and desire to be a true American.
In “A Quilt of a Country,” the author, Anna Quindlen, writes all about how America is made up of many different cultures and races. She compares America to a quilt. She illustrates the idea that the quilt may be made up of many different patches and patterns, but it is still held together by a single thread. In real life, that thread is …show more content…
Kennedy wrote a different article by the name of, “The Immigrant Contribution,” that follows mainly the same ideas as Quindlen’s article. He speaks about how this country was founded off of immigrants, and America wouldn’t be close to the America it is today if immigrants had never come here. Majority of Americans are either immigrants, or have come from immigrant descent. Today many people in this country have the mindset that immigrants are bad, and that they should be required to “Go back to the country they came from.” But these people fail to think about how their ancestors would have to go back to the countries that they came from years before. Quindlen and Kennedy talk about many of the same ideas about this country, but they also share some different …show more content…
She wrote, “ Once these disparate parts were held together by a common enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and the electrified fence of communism. With the end of the cold war there was the creeping concern that without a focus for hatred and distrust, a sense of national identity would evaporate, that the left side of the hyphen- African American, Mexican-American, Irish-American- would overwhelm the right.” (Quindlen, 15) Her article is all about how the American identity doesn’t just involve people who were born in America. It’s everyone that works hard and strives to make their place in this country.
In comparison, Kennedy’s article is much different. He writes about how immigrants have contributed to America, and all of the things that they have done to help build this country. Unlike Quindlen, Kennedy states, “So of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independance, eighteen were of non-english stock, and eight were first generation immigrants.” (Kennedy, 24) Kennedy talks of how immigrants have been here since the country was founded, and that this country has never not had immigrants in it. He wrote about how immigrants have helped invent and create many of the things that we use
In “A Quilt of a Country,” the author, Anna Quindlen, writes all about how America is made up of many different cultures and races. She compares America to a quilt. She illustrates the idea that the quilt may be made up of many different patches and patterns, but it is still held together by a single thread. In real life, that thread is …show more content…
Kennedy wrote a different article by the name of, “The Immigrant Contribution,” that follows mainly the same ideas as Quindlen’s article. He speaks about how this country was founded off of immigrants, and America wouldn’t be close to the America it is today if immigrants had never come here. Majority of Americans are either immigrants, or have come from immigrant descent. Today many people in this country have the mindset that immigrants are bad, and that they should be required to “Go back to the country they came from.” But these people fail to think about how their ancestors would have to go back to the countries that they came from years before. Quindlen and Kennedy talk about many of the same ideas about this country, but they also share some different …show more content…
She wrote, “ Once these disparate parts were held together by a common enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and the electrified fence of communism. With the end of the cold war there was the creeping concern that without a focus for hatred and distrust, a sense of national identity would evaporate, that the left side of the hyphen- African American, Mexican-American, Irish-American- would overwhelm the right.” (Quindlen, 15) Her article is all about how the American identity doesn’t just involve people who were born in America. It’s everyone that works hard and strives to make their place in this country.
In comparison, Kennedy’s article is much different. He writes about how immigrants have contributed to America, and all of the things that they have done to help build this country. Unlike Quindlen, Kennedy states, “So of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independance, eighteen were of non-english stock, and eight were first generation immigrants.” (Kennedy, 24) Kennedy talks of how immigrants have been here since the country was founded, and that this country has never not had immigrants in it. He wrote about how immigrants have helped invent and create many of the things that we use