by Flavia Idà

Dear Editor, Immigrants are people of many contradic tions. Half of our soul is rooted in the shore from where we sailed, the other half in the shore where we landed. Having to navigate constantly between two different worlds is often uncomfortable and confusing.

Visitors need to deal with cultural differences for the length of their stay; immigrants need to do it for a lifetime. To make one example, after more than three decades in America I still have no idea how "personal space" is measured; in fact, before I moved to America I didn't even know what "personal space" was. 

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Fonte: La Voce di New York