A Quilt of a Country: Out of Many, One?

A Quilt of a Country: Out of Many, One? by Anna Quindlen was very well written piece about how America is made up from so many different people from all over the world. It is a patchword piece and no two pieces are the same. This is a country where we do not strive to all be the same, but have freedom to basically do whatever we please. "The United States was built in nobody's image"-Daniel Boorstin.


This piece really made me think about what an American really is. "No matter what the English-only advocates try to suggest, the new immigrants are not so different from our own parents or grandparents." (pg.17) So many of us today complain about a certain race, lifestyle, or groups of people and say that they shouldn't be here for numerous reasons. That they need to go back where they came from and stop taking our jobs etc.. But before we judge any of the immigrants we need to think back and relieze that the same reasons why our own grandparents and great grandparents came to this country are the exact same reasons people from all over the world are doing the same thing today. America from the begining has been about a new chance a life, a better hope for the future, and freedom from religion amoungest many other things. "Patriotism is partly taking pride in the unlikely ability to throw all of us together in a country that across its length and breadth is as different as a dozen countries, and still be able to call is by one name." Immigrants is what makes the United States the United States and we need to take pride in that.