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...There’s no question that [Balderas] and students like him are in a difficult situation, but it is a situation of his parents?? making,” Mehlman said. “When parents violate the immigration law, somehow society has to deal with the consequences...
...which each man and woman could find a way to contribute. In the post-War era, the tendency to break down the world into simple dichotomies—free vs. communist, high-brow vs. low-brow—made defining one’s path easy. For our parents?? generation, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement similarly served to divide and define—you were for Civil Rights and against the war, or you weren’t, but either way you knew where you stood. The clothes they wore, the drugs they used...
Naming generations is a tricky project. Jack Kerouac was successful in naming his Beat Generation, but few others have been able to give their own generation a lasting moniker. The Baby Boomers—our parents??were given their name before they had done much more than arrive. The Greatest Generation—our grandparents—only got that label decades after they had earned it. Some have tried to call our generation a “Lost Generation,” echoing Gertrude Stein, who coined the term in reference to the original Lost Generation...
While she’s straying from her parents?? ideal career path, Braimah says it’s an easier pill for her parents?? to swallow for one reason—she’s studying at Harvard...
Braimah says she plans to pursue her passion for architecture, despite her parents?? hopes for her to become a doctor. She says she would like to work in New York to allow her to focus on corporate architecture...