America

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I feel this map is a bad one for Americans, but not for the reasons you may think. Putting aside the food problem America has (in fact there are lots of healthy Americans as well as unhealthy). This map does show a very positive side of America, its diversity. The difference in region is so great, as we heard on Wednesday, that each region brings something different to America. How ever disunited America is, some how through self belief and National pride it is a very united country. Until recently everything in America used to be American, including the food of course, it was almost a self sufficient country. Apple and other companies have made that impossible now. So this country that used to be a healthy self serving country, where Americans would buy American goods to keep Americans in jobs, the model that served so well in the rise of America, has been destroyed in search of profit. This is the main reason I chose American Studies, these are trying times for America, and for me this map shows that. To others it probably looks like a map of food.