Sentences with phrase «generation immigrant in any country»

However, there are always great challenges that come with being a first generation immigrant in any country.

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My parents and in - laws are children of the second - generation; born in America and raised in the last years of the depression, they inherited the immigrant's unconditional passion for the new country, and happily melted into the pot» Americanizing their own names and Christening their children John instead of Gianni; Mary instead of Maria.

For Antonina's generation of early Twentieth - Century immigrants, the freedom of America's press offered solid evidence that their faith in the young country's promise and opportunity was well - founded.

OldGoat... you obviously don't realize that ALL immigrant groups tend to look like they're from the old country until 2 or 3 generations have been born in the U.S. Right now, we are seeing in America a predominantly immigrant Muslim generation.

1) rickets from vitamin D deficiency causing pelvic deformity 2) unskilled help during birth (most trained midwives stayed in the «Old Country» and weren't among the immigrants in our great - grandparents generation).

The seeds of the current crisis were sown generations ago in the failure of politicians and intellectuals to address the legacy of the British Empire and to speak positively about the contribution that immigrants make to the country.

«There are few countries in the world where you can go, in one generation, from immigrant to parliamentarian.

So, in countries including Japan and Germany, one can be a second or third generation immigrant and still be denied citizenship.

In this sample, 92 were first - generation immigrants; the rest were second - generation American - born, with the majority (105 participants) identifying Pakistan as their heritage country.

Some European countries with large immigrant populations — such as Switzerland and Lichtenstein — are more successful than the United States in educating immigrant students, particularly in the second generation.

Perhaps more tellingly, studies of recent immigrants find that the first generation has risks of reproductive health issues similar to those in the country of origin; but in the second generation, the risks approximate the rates in their new home country.

Then a colleague on the Canadian civil society delegation pointed out that it doesn't much serve climate justice, only shifts the locus of climate injustice, if developed countries accept financial responsibility for loss and damage — then see their historic wrongs paid for by a farmer in rural Britain or a first - or second - generation immigrant family in Calgary who pay their taxes, rather than a multinational fossil that doesn't.

There is some indication that immigrant populations in these countries hold similar values to their Asian and Latin mainland counterparts.47, 15 Yet, for some youth, there appear to be generational and acculturation effects, whereby later generations are more acculturated to mainstream Westernized culture than previous generations.

As mentioned above, many of the participants in Study 1 were second - generation immigrants living in the UK, whose parents originated from more collectivistic countries.