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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Floriano DeArego, a New Bedford carpenter who arrived from St. Michael in the Azores eleven years ago at the age of seventeen, has a highly positive attitude toward the ceremony. "It makes me belong to the country. I don't want to live here and just say I'm in the United States. I want to be part of it." DeArego, who could speak only Portuguese when he came here, says he had no difficulty picking up English, "When you want to learn something you can learn it. I had to. I worked with American people...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: New Americans: Apathy, Hope and Freedom | 1/9/1981 | See Source »

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