Family. "Have I really changed that much?"

Family Narratives: "A  Grain of Sand", the true life story of Marie DeVenezia, orphaned at the age of ten, who emigrated to this country at the height of the immigrant wave. In her testimony to life in America, she tells of first experiences in a new land, adjustments to change, the agonies of parting at wartime, and the joys and sorrows of raising a large family. Click here.

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Immigrants who change countries, counties or even towns for that matter, thus breaking away from their families, discover often that the geographical rift forms into a psychological or spiritual one soon. New ways of thinking take over the transplant's head, thus provoking an outcry of indignation from the clan. The old ones, or the young ones with static thinking, begin to believe we have gone mad and hope that we will come to our senses soon. 

 So how do we deal with them? Nobody wants to cut off their family, but we don't want to give up our new way of thinking either. Any thoughts on this one? Any experiences? Please share them.

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