America's Vastness

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United States of America This is a nation built by people who came from somewhere else almost all with the same purpose-to better themselves. To a newcomer, perhaps the most striking feature of the country is its size. It is the world’s fourth largest nation. The distance between Boston and San Francisco is greater than the distance between Paris and Baghdad. I think America’s vastness has been crucial in luring people from abroad and in shaping American attitudes and aspirations. It is unnatural to perceive many limits on what a person can say or do, or how he or she may choose to live or worship. In New York, for a long time with millions of immigrants, with the result that it became the most ethnically mixed of all the nation’s
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