California represents a blessed state with distinctive geographical landscape that offers an extensive range of scenic attractions and variety of climates. It has sandy beaches and rugged rocky coasts, bountiful farmlands, barren deserts, dense forests and snowcapped mountain peaks. In "The Geography of Desire: California and the sense of place" Sonia Maasika professor at UCLAand Jack Solomona professor at California State University, Northridgewrote, "Such scenic diversity makes California something of a global microcosm and a magnet for tourists from all over the world" (231). Beyond doubt, California remains as the favorite tourist destination for US natives as well as other world travelers. California's geographic diversity, as well as cultural diversity lures Americans and Non-Americans alike to the golden state. Does having no sense of a distinctive identity because of diversity makes California less of a state than others? Thus, California has no distinct landscape,......
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