In “A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman,” Which line best supports Mukherjee's point that she and her "compatriots" have "transformed America"? Click here to read the excerpt. "The larger political entity to which I gave my first allegiance – India – was not even a sovereign nation when I was born." "I am an immigrant; my investment is in the American reality, not the Indian." "The remaining struggle for me is to make the American readership, meaning the editorial and publishing industries as well, acknowledge the same fact." "The people I write about are culturally and politically several hundred years old: consider the history they have witnessed (colonialism, technology, education, liberation, civil war)."

i think the answer is d.

the answer is:

in the fourth paragraph. ( the paragraph that begins with “on friday of my third ”).

hope it !

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