Trans-National America
 "Only America, by reason of the unique liberty of opportunity and traditional isolation for which she seems to stand, can lead in this cosmopolitan enterprise. Only the American--and in this category I include the migratory alien who has lived with us and caught the pioneer "spirit and a sense of new social vistas--has the chance to become that citizen of the world. America is coming to be, not a nationality but a transnationality, a weaving back and forth, with the other lands, of many threads of all sizes and colors. Any movement which attempts to thwart this weaving, or to dye the fabric any one color, or disentangle the threads of the strands, is false to this cosmopolitan vision. I do not mean that we shall necessarily glut ourselves with the raw product of humanity. It would he folly to absorb the nations faster than we could weave them. We have no duty either to admit or reject. It is purely a question of expediency. What concerns us is the fact that the strands are here. We must have a policy and an ideal for an actual situation. Our question is, What shall we do with our America? How are we likely to get the more creative America by confining our imaginations to the ideal of the melting-pot, or broadening them to some such cosmopolitan conception as I have been vaguely sketching?" 

     I choose the above paragraph because the author makes various interesting points in this passage. Starting with the usage of the cosmopolitan word. I believe the use of the word fits the America society perfectly. We are combined of so many different cultures, languages and people that indeed we are a cosmopolitan country. In addition, The author mentions that only America, can be a cosmopolitan enterprise because of what America stands for such as liberty. I totally agree with the author many people here have come and are coming because of the freedom this country stands for. Since America has such strong values, people tend to think of America as the only way out of their suffering. To add, the author also mentions that America cannot be viewed as a nationally anymore but instead as a transnationality.  I couldn't agree more. We should identify ourselves as a transnationality nation because of all the cultures we are involved with, the cultures from our ancestors and the cultures we will keep on gaining in the future.This nation is becoming a wave of people entering and exiting the country for various reasons.  And in my opinion it is going to take a lot of power to change this. therefore we can not just simply say we belong to one single  Lastly, he ends the passage by asking  many questions such as, "what shall we do with America and how can we shape America to this idea of the melting pot or to broadening them to a cosmopolitan conception as the author has been sketching?" In my opinion The first question "what should we do with America" has  tried to be answered, however, all the ways in which they have tried to solved this has been a failure. America will continue to be a transnationality nation as long as America is view as the land of opportunities there is not much anyone can do to stop this.