“What Alexis de Tocqueville saw in America was a society of immigrants, each of whom had begun life anew, on an equal footing. This was the secret of America: a nation of people with the fresh memory of old traditions who dared to explore new frontiers, people eager to build lives for themselves in a spacious society that did not restrict their freedom of choice and action” (Kennedy, p. 2, 2008)
This spoke to me as a significant passage because, I think that this was the crux of what a lot of kids, including myself, were taught in school. This is what this country stands for, the land of opportunity and a place where old traditions can live on in the melting pot or the mixed salad of cultures. I admit that there are times that I have let cynicism
This spoke to me as a significant passage because, I think that this was the crux of what a lot of kids, including myself, were taught in school. This is what this country stands for, the land of opportunity and a place where old traditions can live on in the melting pot or the mixed salad of cultures. I admit that there are times that I have let cynicism