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The term ¨assimilation¨ was resisted by some immigrant advocates because it suggested that people arrving from other lands were obliged to give up their destinctive histories and embrace  the dominant culture in their new home land.
I chose this phrase because this talks about the term ¨assimilation¨ .  It stood out the most.
-Hoang Thai

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"...the solution was to respect different cultures"

I chose this phrase because it shows that respecting different cultures from one another can help connect religion, and immigrates who came to America to be themselves, and to be an American. For example, the text states that, "immigrants stood, put their hands on their hearts, and repeated the oath of allegiance, prompted by a woman on the stage." Furthermore, immigrants shouldn't have racism and judgemental against them. But respect instead.

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My word is U.S. The entire article is about whether immigrants who come to the U.S. should assimilate. The text says that, "America to her was the place where imagined futures did not seem hopelessly out of reach, as they would have in the village where she was raised." This tells me that other people are also looking for opportunities in the U.S.
- Billy

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'' The ceremony  in which Marta Quintanilla  Call  became a U.S citizen was held in a cavernous high-school auditorium in Oakton, Virginia''
I chose this sentence because when I read this sentence I thought of when something really big happens and your just so excited like when something amazing happened In your child hood and you feel like that feeling will never happen again but she must have felt that feeling when she became a U.S. citizen and I thought about that feeling too.
-Angel

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Assimilation

I picked the word Assimilation because why should immigrants require ASSIMILATION. The whole article is about assimilation and why should they require it. An example is how people is trying to adapt to the new culture,(immigrants) .

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".. the people who filled the auditorium that morning in August 2014 came from 82 countries"

I chose this phrase because people and immigrants that came from other countries to get freedom and to vote for assimilation. Either if to act the way you did in your other country or to adapt to your surroundings.

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" She and 499 other immigrants stood, put their hands on their hearts, and repeated the oath of allegiance, prompted by a woman on the stage. "

I chose this sentence because it represent a part of the essay, and it really stood out above the rest of the essay. We take our pledge of almost allegiance everyday, and it usually doesn't mean that much to us, but for some people its one of the most important thing for he/she.  Immigration is a big part of this essay, for example in the text it stated " ... Would have struck some of the immigrant Americans as inappropriate if they knew what the songwriter actually thought about foreigners. " America is a free country and a fair country but not everybody is treated freely and fairly. Most American songs are not meant for immigrants but it is for Americans. We are all American citizen but some of us are not treated as fairly as American citizen them self. Most immigrants come to America for good reason but it will never be good enough because some will understand and some won't. Maybe they understand but they won't fully understand, you never fully know what is going on a person mind or lives.

- Anh Tran.,

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" Immigrants "

I chose this word, because this article basically tells us about how immigrants can't be allowed in America. They need to know certain things like U.S. history taking a drivers test again things like that. It's just like starting their lives all over again except they never got younger and they probably don't even speak the same language. It's like is an alien came to Earth and tried to fit in, not that i'm saying immigrants are aliens they're actual people. Immigrants probably came to this country for a good reason. Like going to school, protecting their family, for a new job, and even more things for the right reason. 

                     - Kiana Meno

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The word I chose was assimilation because in the article, it explains that immigrants are coming to America, and to come we need to understand each other. By understanding each other,  we  need to understand the ways of different cultures and their lifestyle. An example is when it says," My hunch," he said," is that at the end we shall see that the challenge is best met not by making " them " like " us, " but rather by creating a new, more capacious sense of " we ".

- Enzo Medina

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"She and 499 other immigrants stood, put their hands on their hearts, and repeated the oath of allegiance, prompted by a woman on the stage."

I chose this sentence because the 499 immigrants care a lot about America, even though they are immigrants. Also people care after the 9/11 attacks because the song "God Bless the U.S.A." showed up twice in the radio after the attacks and when Osama bin Laden died. That song was mean't for Americans but it was for immigrants as well.

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i chose the word "oath". i chose this word because it shows that not only that immigrants are one race or more. no matter that, it's talking about how they're reciting an oath to show that they're willing to be loyal to the american culture, not only their own. -remy ngoc khanh phan.

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The word is American.

I chose this word because the whole article is about immigrants who came to america and they are saying that should they call immigrants Americans or shouldn't.

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" She and 499 immigrants stood, put on their hands on their hearts, and repeated the allig

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American

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"Immigrants"
I chose this word because there is a lot of immigrants in the USA it say "A 2000 survey of Salvadoran immigrant parents with children in Fair fax County public schools found that fewer than 30 percent had completed high school, and more than 80 percent reported household incomes of less than $40,000 per year.

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"In theory the dicision to become a U.S. citizen separates mig

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"My hunch," he said " is that at the end we shall see that the challenge is best met not by making "them" like "us," but rather by creating a new, more capacious sense of 'we."'

I chose this sentence because Robert Putnam explains that us, humans, were born to be who we are. Why do immigrants come to America? Immigrants did not come to America to be like Americans, but to be free in their own way. An example is " Forced marriage or genital mutilation are not to be tolerated, while freedom of expression and women’s rights are not to be abridged, regardless of how other cultures or countries view such issues." This shows that America isn't a place where everyone must be fully assimilated. We can have our cultures, respect, and backgrounds. We can accepted America traditions as well as our own. It's stands out of how we can be together even when we are different in many ways. No one in this world is focus to be something else. In the article it states “successful immigrant societies have overcome such fragmentation by creating new, cross-cutting forms of solidarity and more encompassing identities.”  As Robert Putnam had said, we overcome the problems that take us apart and make a world where everyone is connected in anyway.

-Lauren Tran

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"...the solution was to respect different cultures"

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I choose "God bless america" because the phrase god bless america came from a person that served for the military in 1918 and the people in the military fought for America.
Nathan Gonzalez.

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I chose Asian because first of all, it explains my rice, secondly it's my culture. We should all talk about culture so that we can learn about other people and what they do in life. It also says in the text that Latinos advance us in education than Asians and Europeans. I dont

Ethan Pham  ☜

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" Immigrants "

I chose this word, because this article basically tells us about how immigrants can't be allowed in America. They need to know certain things like U.S. history taking a drivers test again things like that. It's just like starting their lives all over again except they never got younger and they probably don't even speak the same language. Which makes it more difficult to understand or teach. It's like is an alien came to Earth and tried to fit in, not that i'm saying immigrants are aliens they're actual people. Immigrants probably came to this country for a good reason. Like going to school, protecting their family, for a new job, and even more things for the right reason.

- Kiana Meno

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"Assimilation"
I chose this word because in the article it talks about how Marta Quintanilla Call changed to fit in with her country. But the article says to not make them like us but to change them to make we.

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"...at the end we shall see that the challenge is best met not by making 'them' like 'us,' but rather by creating a new, more capacious sense of 'we.'"

I chose this phrase because I agree with Robert Putnam, a Harvard Political Scientist, that immigrant Americans should not be forced to be and think like an Christian, Anglo Saxon. Rather, the new immigrant American should celebrate and practice tolerance. Also, on page 5 the author suggests that the NEW immigrant American "should speak English, take part in elections, fulfill their civic responsibilities" but also speak their native language, practice their religion and celebrate their cultural backgrounds.