Summary Of What's So Great America

Everyone is made from a collection of nationalities in the United States. What if you were told you had to act a certain way to appease national standards? Everyone should have the right to individuality, with movement away from conformity. The United States has come into a new age of diversity, with no limitations on who you have to be in society. Even though the people of the United States have many nationalities, everyone remains pushing towards the same goal in life. In D’Souza’ article What’s So Great America?, D’Souza expresses his belief that “America remains united,” though there are efforts to start individualism (Source B). Plausible this may be true, but more and more people have been fighting for their chance to be individuals
A study called “Language Use in the United States” provided information on the growth of non-English speaking families in the United States, and with some of the highest percentages being “510.9%,” “391.4%,” and “299.0%”. If these families were trying to conform to the United States, they would only be speaking English, yet there are thousands of people speaking their own language in their quest for diversity. Allowing them to keep and create their own individuality (Source B).The photograph depicting actors from different ethicizes, Hsieh is able to give us an example of everyone standing under the Statue of Liberty and “celebrating diversity”. They all stand under the American flag, but they stand as individuals under the blanket of America. Expressing their love for both of their nationalities, and freely telling everyone they are who they are (Source E). Though many are able to express their culture freely, there are some who feel like they can’t, and this causes many issues for them reaching their goal of
The article “Why the U.S. Is So Good at Turning Immigrant Into Americans” gives us a glimpse of a small town exploding from the new diversification. People in the small town are new to opening their minds to new things, but some still have more to learn, since in the high school there are student from “more than 50 countries”. It may seem overwhelming at first to those who seek limitations, but to the people finding new homes for themselves and their family, while still able to express their culture is priceless. If more people continue learning about different cultures around the world, the United States will continue to grow in its goal for its people to be more open to individuality (Source F). The fight for individuality has been a long fought battle, and “Conflicts of American Immigrants: Assimilate of Retain Ethnic Identity” gives us a view of the initial fight of individuality. People immigrating into the United States were told to “assimilate as quickly as possible,” and this was to appease the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) who had control of the country with closed minds. That was the old way of thinking about how to handle new individuals, since then many things have changed in the regulations of those who are from different nationalities. People of any nationality have the same rights as the