The text below is about half way through the graphic story "I Lift My Lamp Beside the Golden Door," by Maira Kalman in the August 27, 2009, NYT. (You can see the story if you click the link or the text - have patience, it takes a long time to open!) As she writes, when she was sworn in as a citizen (from Israel) she was told that they would "shed our old identity and put on a NEW IDENTITY..." but the woman she met at the district office of Homeland Security for immigration told her "This nation's IDENTITY is BASED on its rich diversity... Americans can be many different things."
Of course Maira Kalman is a voluntary immigrant...
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