S. government and seemed a logical place for a new station to process the increasingly larger numbers of immigrants that were arriving into the country annually (Koman, n
The story presents a majority of the foreign language speakers in the class as "Spanish-speaking. The majority was American citizens" (Mohr 22)
Despite years of thinking ethnic lines were blurring, the contemporary environment does provide evidence showing the contrary, that there has been an increase in differentiation between ethnic identities, mainly as a symbolic gesture based on nostalgia and pride in one's ethnic group. Here, Nagel posits that "the constructionist model constitutes an argument for the durability, indeed the inevitability, of ethnicity in modern societies," (Nagel 260)