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.