Citizenship is something that largely defines many of us. Our citizenship comes with a community, a group of people and land to which we belong, as well as a sense of pride. Citizens of a community must coexist and cooperate with one another for the community to thrive and prosper. The idea of individuals within a community forming a mutual trust and respect for one another, is a concept Danielle Allen introduces as “political friendship.” Political friendship extends beyond the immediate reaches
or love? Most people easily answer “love”, but their following actions show hate. Fear of difference creates hate, and the difference is easily found in an ethnically divided country. Etel Adnan writes of the Civil War in Lebanon in her novel, Sitt Marie Rose, Tomás Rivera writes of the struggles of Mexican-American migrant workers in …And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, and Zitkala-Sa writes of the mistreatment of Native Americans in American Stories and Old Indian Legends. These three authors speak