The Reason why North Africa is a Clearinghouse of the World

ames Jones wrote in the New York Times that “Morocco and that America now United States are close in certain terms of history too. Americans sometimes see in morocco a hazy resemblance to their country. (The American novelist) Edith Wharton visited Morocco as a guest of the French colonial Administration. Wharton invoked immigration and diversity as shared heritage of both countries: “for centuries, ages, North Africa has been what America now is: the clearing-house of the world.” Discuss.