Synthesis Essay Eng 102
Nakoa Dudoit
Professor Joan Robinson
Eng 102
20 Feb. 2015
The Foundation America Was Built On
In Amy Chua’s essay, “The Right Road to America” she argues the point that immigration is a great value of this country and that America was built from immigrants. One thing differs from Chua’s essay than from others because she not only gives highly credible facts on how immigrants have helped our country, but she also provides ways to improve the issues of immigration into America. Amy Chua is a highly credible professor at Yale and states throughout her essay that immigrants who possess American values deserve to be here in America and those who don’t should leave. America had always been a country that accepted immigration and allowed all to come and thrive in the lands of opportunity; however our ponds of clarity have been muddied by unaddressed problems that arose from immigration. America should continue to support immigration by being, “tolerant but tough” because we pride ourselves on the multitudes of diverse groups that we bring together, and more importantly, we are a nation that was held together by the glue of immigration. America is a nation full of diversity and differences but yet we continue to live together and thrive as a nation. Why are we any different than the nations that crumbled in result of immigration? Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union disintegrated when their national identities proved too weak to bind together diverse peoples so why won’t we fall and crumble as they did? The answer is simple, the roots of our national identity has buried itself not only into the land that we built our homes on, but into the very hearts of all those who call themselves Americans. According to Amy Chua “the United States is in no danger of imminent disintegration. But this is because it has been so successful, at least since the Civil War, in forging a national identity strong enough to hold together its widely divergent communities. We
Professor Joan Robinson
Eng 102
20 Feb. 2015
The Foundation America Was Built On
In Amy Chua’s essay, “The Right Road to America” she argues the point that immigration is a great value of this country and that America was built from immigrants. One thing differs from Chua’s essay than from others because she not only gives highly credible facts on how immigrants have helped our country, but she also provides ways to improve the issues of immigration into America. Amy Chua is a highly credible professor at Yale and states throughout her essay that immigrants who possess American values deserve to be here in America and those who don’t should leave. America had always been a country that accepted immigration and allowed all to come and thrive in the lands of opportunity; however our ponds of clarity have been muddied by unaddressed problems that arose from immigration. America should continue to support immigration by being, “tolerant but tough” because we pride ourselves on the multitudes of diverse groups that we bring together, and more importantly, we are a nation that was held together by the glue of immigration. America is a nation full of diversity and differences but yet we continue to live together and thrive as a nation. Why are we any different than the nations that crumbled in result of immigration? Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union disintegrated when their national identities proved too weak to bind together diverse peoples so why won’t we fall and crumble as they did? The answer is simple, the roots of our national identity has buried itself not only into the land that we built our homes on, but into the very hearts of all those who call themselves Americans. According to Amy Chua “the United States is in no danger of imminent disintegration. But this is because it has been so successful, at least since the Civil War, in forging a national identity strong enough to hold together its widely divergent communities. We
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