Why do you believe America is or is not a melting pot? Are we more of a tapestry?
Is this melting pot/quilt/tapestry a good thing or a bad thing for our nation? Justify your response.

Use the essays in your readings (or your disagreement with any or all of the essays) to support your key point/s.

essays are as follows:

The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria by Judith Ortiz Cofer
We Are the World by William Ecenbarger
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of Spirit by Leslie Marmon Silko