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Read the following quotation from "A Quilt of a Country."And there is a grudging fairness among the citizens of the United States that eventually leads most to admit that ... the new immigrants are not so different from our own parents or grandparents. Leonel Castillo ... once told the writer Studs Terkel proudly, "The old neighborhood Ma-Pa stores are still around.... Ma and Pa are now Korean, Vietnamese, Iraqi, Jordanian, Latin American. They live in the store. They work seven days a week. Their kids are doing well in school. They're making it."How does Quindlen "patch" together, or link, the citizens and the new immigrant populations of America in the quotation?

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