Looking at a New Immigrant Family
Yesterday I went went to a new immigrant family’s house. This family is from Kazakhstan; they speak Russian. There are 12 children in the family. The oldest is in high school; the youngest is a toddler. They are really enjoying life in the U.S. Slavic families love bread. In this family’s kitchen there is a large bread machine, something I am sure they didn’t have in Kazakhstan.
This week there was a news item: The U.S. population is now 300 million (300,000,000). Our population is third in the world behind China and India. Most of the growth is coming from families coming to the U.S. When I was a child, most of the families were white, American born, and middle class. Very soon most of the families will be hispanic, asian, or other ethnic group. It’s an interesting change. Today I was at the electronics super store and looked at the staff behind the counter. There were Hmong, Vietnamese, Mexican, Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, Thai, Pacific Islander, and African-Americans. All working together to sell electronics (that are almost all made in China…). I love the rainbow of nationalities that we have in our country.