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To: el_gaviero who wrote (131825)	5/6/2004 2:44:08 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

In other words, to deny your roots is now part of the "roots" of Euro peoples. Well, I guess we all have compulsions at times to know the history of our ancestral homelands.. I am more interested in knowing how my ancestors assimilated and contributed to the history of the United States (or at least their local community).. Because most people who immigrate to America come here to find a new life and leave the old one behind. They come here because we're a nation of ideals, not of blood and soil autocratic and ethno-centric societies. A nation where the poorest family can rise to fulfill their economic and spiritual potential.. So... yeah.. I like to know certain things about the motivations my ancestors might have had in coming here. But I'm more interested in how they assimilated and created new opportunities for themselves in a strange land. Hawk