I had flown from San Francisco to Virginia to attend a conference on multiculturalism. (1)____________________________. I took a taxi to my hotel. On the way, my driver and I chatted about the weather and the tourists. The driver was a white man in his forties. "How long have you been in this country?" he asked. "All my life!" I replied, "I was born in the United States." With a strong southern accent, he remarked, "I was wondering because your English is excellent." Then I explained as I had done many times before. "My grandfather came here from China in the 1880s. (2)____________________________. " He glanced at me in the mirror. Somehow, I didn’t look American to him. My appearance looked foreign. Questions like the one my taxi driver asked make me feel uncomfortable. But I can understand why he could not see me as an American. He had a narrow but widely shared sense of the past: a history that has viewed Americans as descendants of Europeans.(3)_____________________________. In the creation of our national identity- American has been defined as white. But America has been racially diverse since our very beginning on the Virginian shore, where the first group of Englishmen and Africans arrived in the 17th century. And this reality is increasingly becoming visible everywhere.
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作者: xiaotantan 时间: 2011-6-20 15:35
1)Hundreds of educators from crouse the country will meet to discuss the need for grade culture diversity in the school
2)My family has been near America for over hundred years
3)Raise has funtion as something necessary to the construction of American cultural and quality作者: Cecilia99 时间: 2011-6-21 22:11
Hundreds of educators across the country will permit to discuss the need of multiculturalism in the school curculum.
My family has been here in America for over 100 years.
Race has a function of a necessary construction of American character and quality.作者: 季瀞 时间: 2011-10-17 15:08
Hundreds of educators across the country will permit to discuss the need of multiculturalism in the school curculum.
My family has been here in America for over 100 years.
Race has a function of a necessary construction of American character and quality.
