The American Experience

While America has always been a country that preached unity, being referred to as a “melting pot” and known for its cultural and racial diversity, the American experience has eternally been one of isolation and discrimination. Since its primitive beginnings until present day, Americans have been segregated by race, as well as by the distinct classes that have formed due to regional separation. These severances have led to feelings of resentment amongst fellow Americans, which …

…he wants to show the absurdity of the unwritten rule that blacks and whites are not equal. Hughes’ attitude towards America is both contradictory and concurrent to de Crévecoeur’s. While both writers feel that the American experience revolves around segregation, they each trace the division to dissimilar causes. Whether regional separation or unfair attitudes and prejudices towards racially different persons are the origin, segregation is indisputably a huge part of the American experience.