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Posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Mar 29 21:22:40 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Mar 29 21:10:47 2005. Some immigrant experiences were different. My grandmother on my father's side came to America from Italy at age 20 just before World War I, and died at age 80 in 1974 never having learned more than rather basic English. She raised eight children and a couple of grandchildren, never held a job or learned to drive, and ventured out of the house only on rare occasions. I suppose under those circumstances it wasn't surprising that she never really learned English. She was an elderly woman by the time I was old enough to know her, and by that time she had forgotten what little English she had learned and had reverted almost entirely to Italian (not uncommon in elderly immigrants, from what I've heard).My LIRR/NYCT blog |
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