American Identity.....

I found Grossberg's "Youth and American Identity" really boring. It just talked about youth as an american identity. That the United States has always been a country without a center, and that the United States is a nation of immigrants. I really had no interest in it or understood what the point of the text was. Gordan's "More than just a shrine" was more interesting because it related real life situations. It discussed how Ellis Island dehumanized immigrants. Putting letters on the immigrantas for certain illnesses kind of disturbed me. But it was something I never knew so I enjoyed reading it.