identity

In Grossberg's “Youth and American Identity,” he expresses the way he feels about America and how it has revolved around contradicting ones identity. What’s wrong with thinking or expressing the ways we feel? Everyone has the right to their own identity. Everything from the past can't get past on from generation to generation forever. Somewhere along the line there will always be people who feel a certain way about something. One's identity will always be contradicted because diversity will last forever and everyone has the right to identify themselves the way they want to be identified. Mary Gordon's story "More Than Just A Shrine" goes back to immigrants coming to the US. Americans felt some type of way about the diversity these immigrants had. The immigrants were strongly discriminated about their heritages. He goes to Ellis Island to find his identity and show the Ghosts on the Island he shared their beliefs and felt differently about the American ways.