“So this is America!” Hollandsworth quotes Marina Spargo, the mother of Mia and an immigrant to the United States from Russia, as saying (paragraph 43). Which particular aspects of Mia’s and Marina’s...

“So this is America!” Hollandsworth quotes Marina Spargo, the mother of Mia and an immigrant to the United States from Russia, as saying (paragraph 43). Which particular aspects of Mia’s and Marina’s experiences might Marina be thinking of when she made this remark? Write an essay in which you define what is particularly American about child beauty pageants. In other words, which positive and not-so-positive aspects of American culture do we see manifest in these pageants? Your essay will likely take the form of an argument of definition or an evaluative argument. (See Chapters 9 and 10 for discussions of these two categories of arguments.)