The difference is ethnicity and nationality between the owners and employees of neighborhood stores. The similarity that all were and continue to be very hardworking people.
Although you have not provided the text that your question refers to, we can see from questions similar to yours that this question refers to the text "A quilt of a country."
In this text the author shows us:
- American society is heavily diversified.
- This diversity is formed by the different ethnicities, cultures and nationalities that make up the country.
- This diversity has existed since the beginnings of the country and has always been very important for the growth and development of the entire nation.
- However, from the very beginning, prejudice, tolerance and xenophobia have been big and negative.
The author shows the importance of this cultural and ethnic diversity, by presenting the argument of the former head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which shows that the neighborhood stores are, marginally, managed by foreigners and these stores are very important for the local economy.
According to him, the owners and employees of these stores have always been peaceful, beneficial and hardworking people. Being nationality and ethnicity the only difference between them.
This is because in the past, these stores were managed, mainly by Italian, Jewish, or Eastern European. Currently, most of these stores are run by Latinos and Asians.
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