First-generation immigrants to the U.S. have a well-attested (a Google search for “the old country” returns over six million hits) but little-studied tendency to romanticise, both in positive and negative ways, their experiences and impressions of their countries of origin. Even if it’s never openly expressed, they will be intuitively aware of the context required More

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