Another response to reading. This time the reading is American Dreamer!

     First of all to start this blog, I could simply introduce what this article written by Bharati Mukherjee is about. Basically she's trying expose to the general public what it means to be an American. In her writing, she mentions multiculturalism as a way for immigrants to be "mixed" into this American melting pot when they try to become Americans. The meaning behind her view of multiculutralism is how American society was based on a central culture which implies that it's incorporating other cultures into it but it's superior than all of them because those central believes are established as the norms in society. Also that relates to racism against other cultures and immigrants because it's saying that Euro-American cultures are superior which means Caucasians are the superior race when compared to immigrants from other countries. These believes were established before the 90's but during this time period, people start revising their views on this subject of what it means to be an American and the author is trying to persuade her audience to change their old viewpoints and support this change. 
    In the author's point of view, she's rejecting this idea of hyphenation when addressing immigrants who settled in American such as Asian-American because it's depicting the sense that an immigrant is still a citizen of another country.That was especially true in Canada when its Prime minister phoned India's Prime minister to offer their condolences for India's lost. Additionally she views of America as being a country where many cultures are being incorporated into one while maintaining their distinct features and without including the sense of superiority or racism. Since immigrants each bring with them parts of their culture to the U.S, they should use them to define the American culture as the unity of many distinct cultures which would decrease this notion of a superior race and reduce racism throughout the country. What she had in mind had been presented in the minds of many individuals and like her, I believe her America would eventually become a reality.      

   P.S. I like how she writes in a way where I could understand clearly what she's talking about.