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This 3 page paper analyzes Pamela Swanigan's essay about ex-patriate Americans living in Canada. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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government does not force its citizens into pigeon-holes, but in the United States, that is not the case: "America treats identity as a zero-sum proposition: you can be this, but
only if youre not that" (Swanigan). As an example, Swanigan mentions an application form she had to fill out, observing wittily that it reassures her that although the employer is
taking gender and ethnicity data, along with other sensitive information, it has no intention of using it, sharing it, or doing anything with it "that can affect your life in
any way" (Swanigan). She makes her point clearly but without stating it directly, namely, if they arent going to use it why are they collecting it in the first place?
And why do we passively let them intrude into our personal lives? She then comes to what is really the heart of the essay when she says that the form
offers only six choices of ethnic background (Swanigan). "You may be black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Hawaiian, or American/Alaskan Indian. Or again you may not, in which case youre out of
luck" (Swanigan). The choices are limited to the six that someone has deemed will cover the entire population of America, and makes no allowance for people of mixed race, or
those of other races entirely. Nor do these forms truly explain why anybody needs to know this stuff in the first place. And therein lies Swanigans point: Americans are nervous
about ambiguity. They seem to be unable to deal with people unless they can successfully "pigeonhole" them in terms they can understand: he or she is white, black, gay, straight,
educated, rich, poor, etc., and woe to anyone who doesnt fit into one of the accepted categories. This inability to accept wide diversity, Swanigan argues, has led to a "cultural
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