Becoming American

Dinesh DSouza was born in Mumbai, India to p atomic number 18nts from the state of Goa in westbound India. He grew up in a middle-class family in Mumbai. His father was a chemical engineer his m different is an office secretary. He was raised without abundant luxury, scarce neither did he lack for anything. He arrived in the united States in 1978, originally through a Rotary International program, aid Patagonia Union High School in Patagonia, Arizona, and then move to Dartmouth College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in English in 1983.In 1981, DSouza published the name calling of officers of the Gay Student Alliance in an article for The Dartmouth Re idea, including the names of those who were free closeted. While at Dartmouth, DSouza became the editor of a conservative monthly called The Prospect. The wallpaper and its writers ignited much controversy during DSouzas editorship. Later on, D Souza published a lot of write up with compliments to his new life in the States.D Souza able to illustrate the feelings and emotion of an immigrant coming from a third demesne rural, for him (DSouza), as a new comer in the States he feel a typical experienced that alternate between wonders and delight. DSouza added that, the States is a country where all spate has freedom, hard ciphering, the company is organized, the economic is abundant, the roads are mighty paved, telephone has dial tone, highways and get board are clear and accurate. Moreover, the author claimed that American government provides an astonishingly good life for their ordinary citizen.Rich nation live well everywhere, but what distinguishes America is that it provides a remarkably high metre of living for the habitual man. concord to him (DSouza) that a country is not judged by how it treats its just about wet citizens but by how it treats the average citizen. The author added, as an immigrant coming from a third world country, you cannot help noticing that America is a country wh ere unworthy sight live comparatively well they had television sets and cars.Ordinary Americans not except enjoy security and dignity, but also comforts that other societies suspend for the elite. American worker particularly in construction regularly gain 4$ for a cappuccino, where maids drive nice cars, where plumbers take their families on vacation to Europe. If this luxurious living in America as compared to the living in the Third world country, all of us can noticed that bulky gap. Because according to the author, the life in the Third world country was miserable, people are struggling for their basic existence, it is not that they dont work hard.On the contrary, they labor incessantly and endure hardships that are almost unimaginable to people in America. In the villages of Asia and Africa, for example, a common sight is a farmer beating a pickaxe into the ground, women wobbling under heavy loads, children carrying stones. These people are performing arduous labor, but they are getting nowhere. The better that they can hope for is to survive for another day. Their clothes are tattered, their dentition are rotten, and disease and death constantly loom over the horizon.For most poor people on the planet, life is characterized by squalor, indignity, and brevity. The author sited some(a) problem with regard to the situation of a Third world country are their basic infrastructure is abysmal. The roads are not properly paved, the water is not safe to drink, pollution in the cities has reached hazardous levels, public transportation is overcrowded and unreliable, economic is unstable and there is a two-year hold period to get a telephone.The poorly paid government officials are inevitably corrupt, which means that you must pay bribes to get things done. Most important, prospects for the childrens future are dim. Dinesh DSouza has elaborate many cerebrates why America is so great, he was able to discussed some issue with regard to Americas equality, pursuit of felicity, the ethics of work, religious liberty, ideals and interest and Americans virtue. According to the author, American critics alleged that the history of United States is defined by a series of crimes, slavery and genocide.American critics even point out a pick up for apologies for these historical offenses and seek financial reparations for minorities and African-American. But the truth is that American has gone(p) further than any society in establishing equality of rights. As document by William Mcneill in Plagues and People, it was determined that numbers of Indians did perish as a result of their contact with whites, but most of them died by contracting diseases such(prenominal) as smallpox, measles, malaria, tuberculosis for which they had not developed immunities.Surely, all of this is relevant to the reparations debate. A trenchant observation that this issue was totally healed is the fight of Muhammad Ali against George honcho for the heavyweight titl e, for which this battle was held in the African nation of Zaire. The issue with regard to slavery proved to be the transmission belt that brought Africans into the orbit of Western prosperity and freedom. Blacks in America have a higher standard of living and much freedom than any comparable group of blacks on the continent of Africa.DSouza, stated that all this allegation is not strictly true, for a few decades now we can see blacks and some minorities have enjoyed more rights and privileges than whites. The reason behind this is that America had implemented affirmative action policies that mete out legal preferences to minority groups in university admission, jobs and government contracts. The author illustrates the pursuit of happiness in America because it offers more opportunity and social mobility than any other country. As a matter of fact, most societies offer limited opportunities for and lower-ranking chance of true social mobility.Even in Europe, social mobility is re latively restricted. On the other hand, DSouza discussed the ethic of work in America that gives a worldly focus in which death and the afterlife recede from terrestrial view. The people gazed are shifted from heavenly aspiration to earthly progress. In America, American Founders are responsible for the change, drawing from the inspiration of modern philosophers like Locke and ten Smith. The American Founders knew that they could not transform human nature, so they devised a body that would thwart the schemes of the wicked and channel the energies of flawed persons toward the public good.The religious and ethnical divergence in America does not lead to extreme vehemence there was generally no framework fro people to coexist harmoniously, although America has a lot of religious groups, such as Hindus, Muslims, Irish Catholics and Irish Protestant, Jews and Palestinians and etc. The government still managed to balance the culture and religious difference of their citizen. One rea son that separation of religion and government worked is that colonial America was made up of numerous, mostly Protestant sects. The Puritans dominated in mommy the Anglicans, in Virginia the Catholics were concentrated in Maryland and so on.The second reason was, the American Founders were able to avoid religious oppression and conflict ii which they found a way to channel peoples energies out-of-door from theological quarrels and into commercial activity. DSouza concluded his write up that America is the greatest, freest, and most decent society in existence. For him, America is an oasis of morality in a desert of cynicism and barbarism and the history will view America as a great bequest to the world, a gift that Americans today must preserve and cherish. He imagines that, if ever he remained in India, what probably is his life now?Would he find and married a woman who was identical of his religion, socio-economic and cultural background? Would he certainly plow a medical do ctor, an engineer or a software software engineer? For him, as a writer, he considers his life as a apprenticed one, the opportunity to migrate in America became his bridge to gain his winner in life today. Bibliography Bookstove, Nov. 16, 2007. What so Great About America. Stanza Ltd. April 08, 2007. http//www. bookstove. com/Non-fiction/Whats-So-Great-About-America-by-Dinesh-Dsouza. 59078/1