reminds me of how i have to purposely mispronounce asian names bc my friends tell me im pronouncing accurate chinese names wrong

what does this even mean? true to itself? so it doesn't lie to itself about it's ethnicity or beliefs?

"true to itself" allowing immigrants to continue staying here? that is questionable, as racism and sexism is always a large key player in a lot of "inequality" acts

you stand together as individuals even though none of you have anything that's common

a nation of hodgepodge ethnicities

again, european

and what does it mean to be american? if everyon is from a different nation, than what is "american" isn't it just a hodgepodge of all the other nations mixed together? handshakes--those are european basically, it means to be european or white

the garden of eden--forbidden land? lol kind of don't really understand author's analogies

but eden isn't forgotten though it is so old that the stories are definitely distorted

what is "the achievement"?

child rebel he grew up there; of course he thought himself as an american grew up in the 1950's = time of civil rights and stuff

than those of native parents?