Read the excerpt from "a quilt of a country."
which statement best summarizes the central id
paragraph?
what is the point of this splintered whole? what is the point
of a nation in which arab cabbies chauffeur jewish
passengers through the streets of new york-and in which
jewish cabbies chauffeur arab passengers, too, and yet
speak in theory of hatred, one for the other? what is the point
of a nation in which one part seems to be always on the
verge of fisticuffs with another, blacks and whites, gays and
straights, left and right, pole and chinese and puerto rican
and slovenian? other countries with such divisions have in
fact divided into new nations with new names, but not this
one, impossibly interwoven even in its hostilities.
america's cultural differences have caused it
america is a united country despite its cultura
differences.
america's cultural differences make it imposs
peacefully.
america is always on the verge of civil unrest
multicultural citizens.