My father may have (embraced the melting pot and he sure as heck wanted to be sure I never visited the “old country” as second and third cousins were going back to marry extended family members. Sicilian chain migration??) but his father never really spoke English into the early 1990s. My German grandmother was much more like your grandma although it was because she was expected to translate the outside world to the family b
Sent from my iPhone and if I'm driving please excuse Siri derived typos. > On Mar 26, 2018, at 6:24 PM, Kim Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > My observation is that before the 60s America fully embraced the melting > pot model. My own Grandmother, for example, was not allowed to learn > Norwegian. She was the first in her family born in the US, but expected > to only know English. Preserving heritage from European countries was seen > by many as a rejection of being American. After the hippie movement, this > attitude began to change. I think there was some desperation to regain > what was lost by many people. I also agree with the other factors you are > looking at. None of these social shifts happened in isolation. > > Kim > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected]. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
