A Quilt Of A Country

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Have you ever thought about the fact that you are an immigrant? Everyone is a immigrant because everyone was born into a nation. All of the groups of different ethnic and cultural groups have been immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. Although “A Quilt of a Country” and “The Immigrant Contribution” are similar,they have many different key characteristics.

For example,in the essay “A Quilt of a Country”,it states that “The United States was built in nobody's image because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant,like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk art forms.”The quilt represents that nations are made up of groups of different ethnic and cultural groups. The quilt is held together by the fact that

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