This article is a translated excerpt from a piece in German originally written by Carl Zuckmayer - a first generation immigrant.  The piece talks about how America is an unrivaled land of opportunity. Of course, the inclusion of this piece in Vermont Life Magazine reveals the nationalist project with which Vermont Life Magazine is hoping to affiliate the state it represents.

 

The inclusion of this piece in this particular issue of Vermont Life is interesting not only interesting because of its depiction of nationalism, but also because of its depiction of immigration. One of the significant dimensions of later civil rights legislation would be the illegalization of discrimination based on national origin, a problem which continue to persist in the United States today. This article demonstrates that certain immigrants can be easily incorporated into the folds of Vermont Life's cultural imaginary while instances of the stories of black or brown immigrants are notably absent from the magazine's editions a this time.    

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Published approximately the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, this article demonstrates the focus of Vermont Life Magazine as being separate all together from the Civil Rights Movement. Though this may seem a moot point, the inclusion of this article is a prime example of how the magazine's attempt at editorial neutrality is indeed deeply politically not neutral.

 

It matters, in this repect, that this piece is written by a white, male, German immigrant. It seems apparent that a similar piece written by a black, female, immigrant from a non-western country would not serve the same purpose. In this way, Vermont Life sends a message about which immigrants are acceptable in the American Nationalist Imaginary which Vermont Life Magazine ties itself to.