The purpose of the article is to inform the readers about the opinions of people from different countries in the world about how the diversity of cultures in Israel affects its overall culture and function as a country. The author’s viewpoint isn’t clearly represented by the text because nothing is his own words, its all quotes. Most of the quotes describe how all the diversity and variety of people help Israel grow as a country and makes it smarter and more developed, so I believe the author believes the same thing and that is why he used mostly positive responses.
He used quotes such as
- “Because of the diversity Israel has everything! Each person brought something new.
- “All the differences should weaken it, yet it just makes it stronger.”
- “Israel will accept anyone (as long as it’s not a terrorist) no matter color, race, or nationality.”
- “Even though the Hebrews have the toughest history, they function wonderfully!”
- Israelis are less then 1% of the worlds population, yet their acceptance skills and working together is something that the 99% others can learn from.”
Still, there are a few pieces of conflicting evidence. Some of the people he quoted said that all the diversity causes a mess and people disrespect their own country because of it. I believe the author was bias and believes in the diversity because he is Israeli and wants to show people good things about his country. All of the quotes have very strong connotation because these people were trying to get their points across and persuade and inform others of their thoughts. The evidence is reliable because I found this article in a website we used in Israel when we had to research topics for class. The article was written Nov 2011, so it is recent and is up to date, and the people quoted are all intelligent people such as historians, philosophers, and Nobel Prize winners. I could not include the web address to this website because it is in Hebrew, and the authors name and the name of the article aren’t included in here either for the same reasons.
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