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Where World Collide By Pico Iyer
In the article, “Where World Collide” the author Pico Iyer states that the background of the newcomers to America greatly affects the way they perceive what America has to offer and their expectations of the country. The entire time the expectations that the newcomers hold affect them more than being placed in this new environment called America. Their expectations come from “images they’ve brought over from Cops and Terminator 2” with their “heads still partly in the clouds” as stated by the author in paragraph one of the article. The new comers are being painted a picture of what America is supposed to be and shields them from what America actually is which is what they see when they actually arrive to America. All these people with different
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