Salman Rushdie's Staying Put: Home In A Homeless World

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America is often referred to as a wonderful land where things are always moving and improving. A man named Salman Rushdie wrote an essay as a person who moved from his native land (India) for England. Scott Russel Sanders responds to Rushdie’s essay about immigration with a very opposing tone. Rushdie’s essay had a lot of enthusiasm for immigration. He spoke of it very fondly saying “to be a migrant is, perhaps, to be the only species free of the shackles of nationalism.” (34-36) He would also be one to think that the U.S. is a place free of bigotry because of its history of migration. Sanders responds in “Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World.” Sanders repeats in his passage many times his opinion on “People who root themselves