Read the excerpt from "a quilt of a country." once these disparate parts were held together by a common enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and the electrified fence of communism. with the end of the cold war there was the creeping concern that without a focus for hatred and distrust, a sense of national identity would evaporate, that the left side of the hyphen—african-american, mexican-american, irish-american—would overwhelm the right. what is the denotative meaning of fault lines in this excerpt? lines that are drawn when placing blame areas of defense in times of war long cracks in the surface of the earth breaks in modern american society the underlined word is > fault lines

The denotative meaning of "fault lines" in this excerpt is "long cracks in the surface of the earth. Just like "the fence of communism", fault lines divide the surface of the earth into separate parts that will never be united. The connotative meaning, on the other hand, refers to lines that separate society into "us" and "the other," making it easy for national identities tu emerge. Once those lines or barriers begin to blur after the Cold War, the differences between people are harder to identify.

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