Read the excerpt from 'A Quilt of a Country." Which statement best summarizes the central idea of
this paragraph?
What is the point of this splintered whole? What is the
point of a nation in which Arab cabbies chauffeur
Jewish passengers through the streets of New York -
and in which Jewish cabbies chauffeur Arab
passengers, too, and yet speak in theory of hatred,
one for the other? What is the point of a nation in
which one part seems to be always on the verge of
fisticuffs with another, blacks and whites, gays and
straights, left and right, Pole and Chinese and Puerto
Rican and Slovenian? Other countries with such
divisions have in fact divided into new nations with
new names, but not this one, impossibly interwoven
even in its hostilities
America's cultural differences have caused it to
fracture
America is a united country despite its cultural
differences
America's cultural differences make it impossible to
live peacefully
America is always on the verge of civil unrest due to
its multicultural citizens.