Becoming American

Dinesh DSouza was born in Mumbai, India to parents from the state of Goa in Western India. He grew up in a middle-class family in Mumbai. His father was a chemical engineer his mother is an office secretary. He was raised without great luxury, but neither did he lack for anything. He arrived in the United States in 1978, origin aloney through a Rotary International program, attending 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 make the c only of officers of the Gay Student Alliance in an article for The Dartmouth Review, including the names of those who were still closeted. While at Dartmouth, DSouza became the editor of a conservative monthly called The Prospect. The paper and its writers ignited much controversy during DSouzas editorship. Later on, D Souza published a lot of write up with regard to his new life in the States.DSouza able to deck the feelings and emotio n of an immigrant coming from a third globe country, for him (DSouza), as a new comer in America he feel a typical experienced that alternate between wonders and delight. DSouza added that, America is a country where all volume has freedom, hard micturateing, the community is organized, the economic is abundant, the roads are aright paved, telephone has dial tone, highways and sign board are clear and accurate. Moreover, the author claimed that Ameri so-and-so government provides an astonishingly good life for their ordinary citizen.Rich people live well everywhere, but what distinguishes America is that it provides a outstandingly high commonplace of living for the common man. According to him (DSouza) that a country is not judged by how it treats its close affluent 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 where poor people live comparatively we ll they had television set sets and cars.Ordinary Americans not only enjoy security and dignity, but also comforts that other societies reserve for the elite. American worker particularly in construction regularly earned 4$ for a cappuccino, where maids drive clear 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 huge 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 infra heavy loads, children carrying stones. These people are performing arduous labor, but they are repelting nowhere. The best th at they can hope for is to survive for another day. Their clothes are tattered, their teeth are rotten, and disease and death forever loom over the horizon.For most poor people on the planet, life is characterized by squalor, indignity, and brevity. The author sited around problem with regard to the situation of a Third world country are their basic stem is abysmal. The roads are not properly paved, the water is not safe to drink, pollution in the cities has reached dotty levels, public transportation is overcrowded and unreliable, economic is unstable and there is a two-year waiting period to sop up 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 reasons why America is so great, he was able to discussed some issue with regard to Americas equality, pursuit of happiness, the ethics of work, religious libert y, ideals and recreate and Americans virtue. According to the author, American critics alleged that the tarradiddle of United States is defined by a series of crimes, slavery and genocide.American critics even point out a demand for apologies for these historical offenses and seek monetary reparations for minorities and African-American. But the truth is that American has gone further than any society in establishing equality of rights. As documented by William Mcneill in Plagues and People, it was determined that numbers of Indians did perish as a result of their butt on with whites, but most of them died by contracting diseases such 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 a acquitst George Foreman for the behemoth title, for which this battle was held in the African nation of Zaire. T he 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 live with a higher standard of living and more 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 give 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 amicable mobility than any other country. As a matter of fact, most societies offer limited opportunities for and little jeopardize of true social mobility.Even in Europe, social mobility is relatively restricted. On the other hand, DSouza discussed the ethi c of work in America that gives a worldly focus in which death and the afterlife recede from quotidian view. The people gazed are shifted from heavenly aspiration to earthly progress. In America, American Founders are responsible for the change, draftsmanship from the inspiration of modern philosophers like Locke and Adam Smith. The American Founders knew that they could not transform human nature, so they devised a system that would thwart the schemes of the wicked and channel the energies of flawed persons toward the public good.The religious and ethnic difference in America does not lead to extreme violence 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 and so on The government still managed to balance the culture and religious difference of their citizen. One reason that separation of piety and government worked is tha t colonial America was made up of numerous, mostly Protestant sects. The Puritans dominated in mom the Anglicans, in Virginia the Catholics were concentrated in Maryland and so on.The second reason was, the American Founders were able to vacate religious oppression and conflict ii which they found a way to channel peoples energies away from theological quarrels and into commercial activity. DSouza concluded his write up that America is the greatest, freest, and most fit society in existence. For him, America is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism and the history will view America as a great gift 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 flummox a medical doctor, an engineer or a software programmer? For him, as a writer, he co nsiders his life as a destined one, the opportunity to migrate in America became his bridge to gain his success 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