Trans-national America by Randolph S. Bourne

          We are all foreign-born or the descendants of foreign-born and if distinctions are to be made between us, they should rightly be on some other ground than indigenousness. The early colonists came over with motives no less colonial than the later. They did not come to be assimilated in an American melting pot. They did not come to adopt the culture of the American Indian. They had not the smallest intention of 'giving themselves without reservation' to the new country. They came to get freedom to live as they wanted to. They came to escape from the stifling air and chaos of the old world; they came to make their fortune in a new land. They invented no new social framework. Rather they brought over bodily the old ways to which they had been accustomed. Tightly concentrated on a hostile frontier, they were conservative beyond belief. Their pioneer daring was reserved for the objective conquest of material resources. In their folkways, in their social and political institutions, they were, like every colonial people, slavishly imitative of the mother country. So that, in spite of the 'Revolution,' our whole legal and political system remained more English than the English, petrified and unchanging, while in England law developed to meet the needs of the changing times.

          For me the meaning of this passage is that when all sorts people come together in unity like the United States has been in several centuries great things happen. The early colonist came to North American not to be colonized once again nor to be emulating the American Indian culture after emancipating themselves from the Great Britain colony; but to create one great nation founded with the whole legal and political system remained more English. This country was formed on the basis of pooling people and resources from all over the world. This is because when there's brain drain other nations lost their professionally trained personnel to the United States who in turn offered tremendous greater opportunities.

          I chose this paragraph simply because it is obvious that millions of diverse people are migrating to the United States legally and illegally year after year bringing together with them all different kinds of professions and talents taken upon themselves low class jobs the native Americans aren’t willing to do.