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Macaulay Honors College
at Baruch, Spring 2013Professor Els de Graauw
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When Your Children Speak English Better Than You Do
[I spoke] very little English and then little by little, listening to the TV or to the, or to the radio or listening other people speak or taking a book and reading a book is how you pick up more the language. And I’m still not, eh, as good as I like to, but I can defend myself.
Becoming American
Not only when you speak the language because you can speak the language in any other place, in different countries. You can speak two, three, four different languages. That is not the case. Its when you are already so many years in, in the United States, that you forget that you were born in a different country. And everything here is, for me, is perfect… [Its about]the time that you already spent in some place that you don’t think anymore about your past, you think about your future.
Not a Fan of Fidel Castro
Lets put it this way: I don’t want to give Fidel Castro anymore of the dollars that he took from us before we got to the United States. Not only that he did not let us bring money and possessions, but at the same time my father used to have a photographic supplies in Cuba, and we have to leave everything and came with empty handed. And that’s why I said that he took our money enough from us.
