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RE: "Coming to America" (July 2011)
I was pleased to stumble on your website
while researching something on Canada
Day recently. [Canada Day is Canada's ver-
sion of Independence Day, and is celebrat-
ed annually on July 1.] I read with interest
writer Karynne Naftolin's essay on the view
of the States and its citizens from up above.
(We do sit above you, geographically
speaking.) There are many things I think the
writer hit on that ring true.
As someone married to an American (I'm
Canadian) and studying for her Ph.D. in po-
litical science, I remain hyper-aware of his
impressions (and disdain) regarding global
diplomacy. He is not alone, as results of
myriad opinion polls undertaken to gauge
U.S. public attitudes toward the subject
have underscored.
However, the writer also speaks to an
inherent embrace of individualism that
Americans seem born with, which has al-
lowed the country to become the preemi-
nent global superpower of our times.
U.S. exceptionalism, as best captured
by Ronald Reagan's acceptance speech at
the 1984 Republican National Convention,
speaks of America as the shining city on the
hill. That's the principal view most Ameri-
cans have toward their country. And, for
good or bad, it works.

— Rebecca Rosensweig
North York, Ontario

The writer is a Ph.D. candidate in political
science at the University of Toronto in
Ontario, Canada.

President Reagan's concluding remarks from his 1984 presidential nomination
acceptance speech:
"The poet [Emma Lazarus] called Miss Liberty's torch the 'lamp beside the
golden door. Well, that was the entrance to America, and it still is. And now you
really know why we're here tonight.
"The glistening hope of that lamp is still ours. Every promise, every opportu-
nity is still golden in this land. And through that golden door our children can
walk into tomorrow with the knowledge that no one can be denied the promise
that is America.
"Her heart is full; her door is still golden, her future bright. She has arms big
enough to comfort and strong enough to support, for the strength in her arms is
the strength of her people. She will carry on in the '80s unafraid, unashamed and
unsurpassed.
"In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is. Thank
you, God bless you, and God bless America."

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