Greg Laden's Blog : When Do Immigrants Learn English? Likely, not when you think.
This is 1981, and everybody in this neighborhood speaks Italian, because they are Italian. Second and third generation, yes, but Italian is the language of the home and the workplace. This is a neighborhood with zero unemployment, zero unorganized crime, and that serves the city in which it is ensconced as a major international tourist destination. And it is pretty much true that the Italian immigrants that moved to this neighborhood starting more than a century ago are still working on the English Only thing. (and another fine example of why I despise commentary)
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Book relates immigrant story of leaving behind 'la via vecchia' - The Boston Globe
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As Earth Warms Up, Tropical Virus Moves to Italy - New York Times
Aided by global warming and globalization, Castiglione di Cervia has the dubious distinction of playing host to the first outbreak in modern Europe of a disease that had previously been seen only in the tropics.
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