... they be given the opportunity to consider themselves a member of the group that they have helped create in America? In Let America be America Again by Langston Hughes, we read of what an American truly is. "For I am the one who left dark Ireland's shore, And Poland's plain, and England's grassy ... full and equal participation in the society and polity of the United States." (601) The problem with assimilation is that it changes the entire basis on which America was founded. America was brought together by members of many different races, cultures, and ethnicities resulting in a sort of ...

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