di Dominique Gaumont

Brainpickings offre ai lettori le assai attuali riflessioni sull’immigrazione di Freeman Dyson, immigrato dall’Inghilterra nel 1948 e autore di un’autobiografia epistolare

Several of my friends are second-generation Americans, whose parents came over from Germany or Poland or Lithuania or some such place, and I am always curious to ask them questions about their parents’ histories in Europe and their reasons for emigrating and their emotional backgrounds. Always I have been amazed to find that the young people know practically nothing, and apparently care little, about such matters. It is very strange when one thinks how much we have absorbed about the history and society to which our family belonged.

Immagine: Monroem