Tracing the Central Idea in "A Quilt of a Country"
Question 12 • MO-English Language Arts 9 B-CR
Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country."Once these disparate parts were held together by a common enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and the electrified fence of communism. With the end of the cold war there was the creeping concern that without a focus for hatred and distrust, a sense of national identity would evaporate, that the left side of the hyphen—African-American, Mexican-American, Irish-American—would overwhelm the right. And slow-growing domestic traumas like economic unrest
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Once these disparate parts were held together by a common enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and the electrified fence of communism.
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With the end of the cold war there was the creeping concern that without a focus for hatred and distrust, a sense of national identity would evaporate, that the left side of the hyphen—African-American, Mexican-American, Irish-American—would overwhelm the right.
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And slow-growing domestic traumas like economic unrest and increasing crime seemed more likely to emphasize division than community.
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Today the citizens of the United States have come together once more because of armed conflict and enemy attack.