Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country"
What is the point of this splintered whole? What is the
point of a nation in which Arab cabbies chauffeur
Jewish passengers through the streets of New York-
and in which Jewish cabbies chauffeur Arab
passengers, too, and yet speak in theory of hatred, one
for the other? What is the point of a nation in which one
part seems to be always on the verge of fisticuffs with
another, blacks and whites, gays and straights, left and
right, Pole and Chinese and Puerto Rican and
Slovenian? Other countries with such divisions have in
fact divided into new nations with new names, but not
this one, impossibly interwoven even in its hostilities
Which statement best summarizes the central idea of
this paragraph?
America's cultural differences have caused it to
fracture.
America is a united country despite its cultural
differences.
America's cultural differences make it impossible to
live peacefully.
America is always on the verge of civil unrest due to
its multicultural citizens.