When We Never Came To America

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After reading over both authors writings, I have concluded that both authors stress that everyone is different in their own way. Nobody in today's general public is worth more than any other person, and through the distinctions we are all equivalent. Both Quindlen and Kennedy agree that America would be vastly different if not for immigrants.
But their reasoning was very different. Kennedy says that Without immigrants, we wouldn’t be sitting here today. Imagine a scenario in which we never came to America. It would be a vastly different place then it is today, and we have the immigrants to thank for that. But to Quinland American is “A mongrel nation built of ever-changing disparate parts, it is held together by a notion, the notion that

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