Anglais, espaces et échanges, Is the USA a country of spaces and exchanges?

I am going to talk about the notion “spaces and exchanges”. In order to illustrate this notion, I have chosen documents about the USA and the American Dream. We can wonder if the USA is a country of spaces and exchanges or not.

On the one hand, we can say that the US is a country of spaces and exchanges. For example, we can talk about “New Horizons”, it’s an extract from an American talk show. It is a dialogue between a journalist and a Mexican. The journalist interviews a Mexican who immigrated to the US. He explains that he left his family in order to have a better standard of living. Millions of immigrants have done the same because there are more jobs and jobs are better paid. Alejandro Perez tells the journalist that the American dream is still alive and stills a reality. Here, the story of Alejandro Perez shows that immigrants can become part of the US and it shows the American dream could drive people to leave their native country.

I chose another document, “American Land” which is a song by Bruce Springsteen, an American singer, musician and songwriter who was born in 1949. This song talks about a man and his wife who immigrate to the US. Line 30-31, “The MC Nicolas, the Posalskis, the Blacks, the Irish, Italians, the Germans and the Jews.” He talks about many nationalities who immigrate to the US. In fact, there are 4 waves of immigration in the US. The first one has started before the independence of the US in 1776. Migrants come from all over the world pushed by the desire for a better future. This enumeration of various nationalities shows that the USA welcomes immigrants from around the world and that it is a country of exchanges between people from different origins.

But, on the other hand, we can say that the United States of America is not a country of spaces and exchanges. I have chosen a document in order to show that the US tries to control exchanges and refuses immigrants. It is a documentary about “The Wall”. The Wall is the Mexico - United States barrier. Americans have built the Wall in order to prevent immigrants from crossing the border. The “Wall” is at the centre of a controversy, in fact some people are against it because they think that it is very expensive and ineffective. It jeopardizes the immigrants’ health and safety and moreover it damages the environment. But the major part of Americans is for because they think it prevents illegal immigrants from entering the US, stops drugs traffickers and limits violence related to drugs. Therefore, people who try to move to the US, imagine that it is the country where everything is possible, they take risks to cross the border but finally, they can’t.

To conclude, in the US, immigrants can become part of the country and the American dream could drive people to leave their native country and the US allows certain immigrants to start from scratch and to have a better standard of living. But they also control exchanges, closing their space and refusing immigrants with the Mexico - United States barrier, The Wall. Personally, I think that the USA is a country that makes dreams come true, so immigrants are pushed by the desire for a better future therefore they try to enter the US but all immigrants can’t be accepted.

Thus the USA has established quotas to limit the number of migrants and puts barriers around their space and therefore reduce their trade with the outside.

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