The answer is a. To show that even seemingly eternal things are temporary,
Answer:
I agree.
Explanation:
America was created by the interplay of many different cultures in a single region. This is because as we know, America was supported by immigrants, who built the country based on their own cultural concepts and values. This made the cultural diversity that makes up American culture, go beyond ethnicity, religion and age, but it has to do with the way of life, personality, concepts and ethical and moral values that each American presents in relation to the country, citizens and the world. In addition, the diffusion and mixing of cultures in the country, made it impossible to define them according to religion and ethnicity, but it became a great respectable and admirable national concept.
The sentence that best reveals the context is: "With the end of the cold war there was the creeping concern that without a focus for hatred and distrust, a sense of national identity would evaporate, that the left side of the hyphen—African-American, Mexican-American, Irish-American—would overwhelm the right."
By reading "...the end of the cold war...", the reader infers the time the story is set in. The Cold War started after the Second World War (1945) and ended in 1991 with the end of the Soviet Union.
In addition, by reading "...the left side of the hyphen - African-American, Mexican-American, Irish-American - would overwhelm the right", readers can deduce that the author is referring to the US and its fear of loosing a sense of nationalism and unity among its diverse population.
In all, the setting is the US in the early 90's because of the reference to the end of the Cold War and the fear of not being unified anymore.
bequeathed means the same as gave.
