Utopia Achieved

I'm guessing the reason why she is trying to convince us that America is a "Utopia" is because it's not like any other country. We don't have a past or the hardships that other countries have endured, we don't have a culture or any tyrants trying to take our world over.

She is saying that everyone came over here to America because it is a new start for everyone, they were all just trying to escape their country's history like Octavio Paz said it.

I don't understand how we can be considered to be an elegant Third World. I don't understand the metaphor.

There is a huge comparison between us and in most other countries, probably all of them. We don't have secrecy in our public affairs especially when those issues deal with people of power and/or celebrities. We publicize it within our cinema and music while other countries conceal their faults and failures.

After reading her essay I can see the point of America being a "Utopia" but what is her standpoint. She stands on both sides saying at times they, meaning America, while a sentence later she'll say we, meaning in America. Whether or not she is trying to prove a point she does point out some good facts. I think the greatest one is the fact that everyone came her to start a new life, America is still very young, there is no culture, the only culture that was here, Native Americans, we killed off or are now on reservations. I guess that is what you do when you find a place were you can start completely over.