This article takes a different approach to the articles we have been reading so far. Instead of focusing on the northeast and NYC, this article focuses on the Midwestern states and the suburbs.  The article discusses how people used to live in the suburbs and travel to the city since expenses were much smaller living in the outskirts of town as opposed to the center of the city. Waters and Jiminez discussed a few different aspects of immigrant migration to the states. One thing they discuss is the language pattern that occurs with immigrants. For example, the first generation population generally speaks the language of their native country, the second speaks the native tongue and some from the new country, and the third completely assimilates and speaks the new language. Many first generation immigrants are also not happy with this because the loss of language leads to a loss of culture. Intermarriage was also discussed in the article as a way of assimilation for immigrants coming to the US. However, staying true to point, a bigger percentage of second and third generation immigrants are most likely to engage in intermarriage than are first generation immigrants because that crosses cultural borders and first generation immigrants tend to resist this. I can relate to this instance because discussing marriage with my parents, I have always tended to be more open to the idea of getting married to someone of a different race, while my parents have expressed their fear of our “culture dying out”. However, at the same time, with regards to language, I feel that it is very important for immigrants and children of immigrants to be multilingual and to try and keep a culture alive. I myself know Russian fluently and hope to teach my kids Russian in the future as well.