In ¨A Quilt of a Country,¨ when Anna Quindlen says this, she means that people of different splintered communities like Arabs and Jews are hateful towards each other but still sometimes stay within the same nation.
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, multiculturalism and strife in America are discussed in A Quilt of a Country." When Americans claim that America is a magnificent country, Quindlen first discusses the dark past and racial and ethnic divisions they must face: slavery, the death of homosexual men, and lynching. She continues by discussing how clashes between different groups are common as a result of mixing. For instance, she brings up the scandal surrounding the union of her Irish and Italian parents and the "Irish divide" in Philadelphia between the Irish and non-Irish.
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