Who are these people rushing by you on the street'?More than 200 million now call America "home," but most of them can trace their families back to other parts of the world.If you look at the names on shop windows,you will see that Americans come from many different lands.The idea that these people, who once were strangers to the United States, have lost the customs and cultures of their original countries and have become "American" is not really true.
在街上匆忙與你擦肩而過的人是誰?現(xiàn)在超過兩億的人把美國稱作他們的“家”,但他們中的大部分都能夠?qū)⒓易鍤v史追溯到世界上的其他地方。如果你看看商店櫥窗里的名字,你就會看到美國人來自于許多不同的國家。這些曾經(jīng)對美國一無所知的人已經(jīng)丟掉了自己國家的習俗和文化而變成了“美國人”,這種想法實際上并不正確。