Immigrants try new ways to assimilate – Language, volunteering and citizenship are key From: news-journalonline.com
Tagged: citizenship, Colombia, Colombian, FloridaPosted on: May 12th, 2008
Damariz Nunez is Colombian at heart. She shops at Latino grocery stores for produce to cook the dishes she enjoyed as a child. She speaks Spanish, her mother tongue, at home or with friends.
She enjoys dancing to the music of her native land.
But since moving to the United States from Barranquilla , her hometown, more than 20 years ago, she has made an effort to learn U.S. history, to speak and write English, and to follow Florida and national politics.”*
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