Question

What are the counterclaims/counterarguments from a Quilt Of A Country

Answer 1

Answer:

Counterclaims:

- Bigotry, slavery, sweatshops, ostracism

- America as a nation fails more than it succeeds

Claim - Main argument

Reason - Anything that supports the claim

Evidence - Anything that proves the claim

Claim: This is a nation founded on a conundrum

Reason: Historians must have forgotten the past, or have gilded it

Evidence: The New York of my children is no more Balkanized (Divided into nations or political sectors)...than the Philadelphia of my father..."

In her article “A Quilt of a Country” Anna Quindlen claims that though we all are different but are always united as a country. In paragraph 3, her opposing viewpoint is that we all are separated by individuality. For this view, the counterargument that she offers it that we are separated by individuality by different people from other parts of the world. She wants her people to learn to work together and learn each other's costumes in order to be connected.