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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 692771" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Like California. I was a post-war baby too. California began to change at a great velocity because of the War. California ports were used to fight the pacific front, and a huge influx of people came from the East and South, principally, to work in shipbuilding.</p><p></p><p>It seems like the velocity of changes just kept building and building until sometimes it feels like it will explode in one--like you cannot hold together as the same person.</p><p>My mother her whole adult life feared that some day this country would come after us. Isn't that something?</p><p></p><p>We spoke more than once about exit plans. How we would flee. One reason I sought citizenship in another country was this. The basic sense of unease we felt here. I am not sure if we carried this with us as part of our character from the old country. That is one reason why I have been able to identify so strongly with the immigrants to California and the United States. My mother never lost this affinity --the belief that "us" referred as much to our identity as unwanted and insecure, as to any specific cultural identity.</p><p></p><p>To me that is interesting.</p><p></p><p>In fact my family such as it is now, M and I and my son, is an amalgam of 3 marginal peoples.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 692771, member: 18958"] Like California. I was a post-war baby too. California began to change at a great velocity because of the War. California ports were used to fight the pacific front, and a huge influx of people came from the East and South, principally, to work in shipbuilding. It seems like the velocity of changes just kept building and building until sometimes it feels like it will explode in one--like you cannot hold together as the same person. My mother her whole adult life feared that some day this country would come after us. Isn't that something? We spoke more than once about exit plans. How we would flee. One reason I sought citizenship in another country was this. The basic sense of unease we felt here. I am not sure if we carried this with us as part of our character from the old country. That is one reason why I have been able to identify so strongly with the immigrants to California and the United States. My mother never lost this affinity --the belief that "us" referred as much to our identity as unwanted and insecure, as to any specific cultural identity. To me that is interesting. In fact my family such as it is now, M and I and my son, is an amalgam of 3 marginal peoples. [/QUOTE]
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