Question

What is Rawls describing when he states that "in California, there is an ongoing dialectic in which new syntheses are born from the paradoxes of the past"?

Answer 1

Answer:

He was describing the California dream which he referred to as a paradox of expectations.

He pointed out that the expectations of millions of people who migrate into California was raise as a result of the promises of the California Dream. He noted that these people hope that they will have a better life in California than the lives they had in their past.