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...home, like parentage, must be legitimized through love; otherwise, it is only a fact of geography or biology. Most immigrants to America found their love of their old homes betrayed. Whether Ireland starved them, or Nazi Germany persecuted them, or Viet Nam drove them into the sea, they did not really abandon their countries; their countries abandoned them. In America, they found the possibility of a new love, the chance to nurture new selves...
...easy. Successive waves of immigration differ, of course, and a refugee from wartime Europe does not have the same experiences as a refugee from postwar Viet Nam 40 years later. But all immigrants have certain things in common, and all know the classic, opposite impulses: to draw together in protective enclaves where through churches, clubs, cafes, newspapers, the old culture is fiercely maintained; and on the other hand to rush headlong into the American mainstream, seeking to adopt indiscriminately new manners, clothes, technology and sometimes names...
Muller is one of more than 60 foreign-born staff members from 29 countries as far-flung as Australia and Bolivia, Germany and Viet Nam. Among the earliest of these new arrivals to America are Assistant Art Director Arturo Cazeneuve, from Argentina, and Layout Chief Burjor Nargolwala, from India. Both became U.S. citizens while serving in the Army during World War II. Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, who contributed a two-page Essay to the issue, came from Austria in 1940 by way of France, Morocco and Portugal. Assistant Managing Editor John Elson was born in Vancouver...
...Broadway-Lafayette. Recently, among the riders waiting on the platform, there was a woman in a sari reading the matrimonial ads in the English- language newspaper India Abroad, looking at one "inviting correspondence" for "a well-educated professional with a green card." Next to her a woman from Viet Nam folded herself into the sit-squat of Southeast Asia, while she spooned American mashed pears into a baby in a folding stroller. Farther along the platform, a woman from Nicaragua, now a U.S. citizen, explained the subway system to her niece. The older woman, in secret and at great expense...
Sang Kook Nam, 37, and his wife Seon Kyung, 35, respectively a mechanical engineer and a nurse, arrived from South Korea in 1974 to live with Nam's brother in Michigan. Nam pumped gas for the first year, saving enough to open his own filling station, then a body shop, then a used-car dealership. His wife, meanwhile, started a jewelry store. In 1979 the Nams sold their businesses and set out for Los Angeles, where Nam attended dry-cleaning school and within six months made a $20,000 down payment on a store. That has since expanded...