"Here in not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations. Here is action untied from strings necessarily blind to particulars and details magnificently moving in vast masses". Whitman had it right even in his day, we are a nation of nations. America is a melting pot of the world, no where else in the world can you find such a diverse range of people. We take the huddled masses when they untie the strings of their former nations to become Americans. In Whitmans time there was a mass entrance into the US, from europe they came in droves to escape a potatoe famine as with the irish, or from part far and wide they came. In our own time the vietnamese came, in boats, in planes they came. None really caring what the particulars or details are just that they wanted out of where they were and trying to a better life, after all in their eyes America's streets are paved with gold.
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