We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.
Interpretation
Immigrants shape America, but America also profoundly influences immigrants.
This quote by Marco Rubio highlights the dynamic relationship between immigrants and the American landscape. While it is often discussed how immigrants contribute to the cultural, economic, and social fabric of the country, it is equally important to recognize how the values, opportunities, and challenges of America have a significant impact on the lives of immigrants, shaping their identities and experiences in profound ways.
In practice
In a discussion about immigration policy, one might refer to this quote to emphasize the reciprocal influence between immigrants and American society.
History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making decisions that irrevocably shaped the world that we live in today; just as today, we are making subtle, irrevocable decisions that people of the future will remember as revolutions.
The international community spends much more time and resources managing crises than preventing them. But TV cameras are seldom there when a conflict is avoided, so it is difficult for governments and international organizations to make prevention a priority.
Opportunities may come along for you to convert something - something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it.
I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.
Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.
The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage.
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