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Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country."
What is the denotative meaning of fault lines in this
Once these disparate parts were held together by a
excerpt?
common enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and
O lines that are drawn when placing blame
the electrified fence of communism. With the end of
the cold war there was the creeping concern that
O areas of defense in times of war
without a focus for hatred and distrust, a sense of
O long cracks in the surface of the earth
national identity would evaporate, that the left side of
• breaks in modern American society
the hyphen -African-American, Mexican-American,
Irish-American -would overwhelm the right.
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