Word: prided
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These conflicting tugs of direction are a perplexing constant in the lives of millions of youthful American immigrants. Growing up in two cultures is at once a source of frustration and delight, shame and pride, guilt and satisfaction. It can be both a barrier to success and a goad to accomplishment, a dislocating burden or an enriching benison. First-generation Americans have an "astonishing duality," declares Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles, himself the son of an English immigrant. "They tend to have a more heightened awareness both of being American and also of being connected to another country...
Highly motivated, the children of immigrants frequently feel guilty and disgraced when they do not excel at their studies. Le Giau expressed pride but Daughter Jennifer was ashamed when she came in second in a spelling contest. Son Nguyen, who plans to study engineering and then become a doctor, is still concerned that he has been infected by slack U.S. student habits. Reason: instead of straight A's, he pulled a few B's in his senior year in high school...
Bankers used to pride themselves on being discreetly incurious about their depositors, even those who walked in with suitcases full of cash. But nowadays any American banker who looks the other way is looking for trouble. Reason: the Federal Government is trying to stamp out money laundering, the process by which banks often unwittingly help drug dealers, loan sharks and other criminals convert their conspicuous piles of small bills into checks and other instruments...
...experts in Sao Paulo initially declined assistance from abroad. Last week, however, the Wiesenthal Center supplied the Brazilians with the dossier it had assembled on Mengele and prevailed on them to allow three U.S. experts to observe the forensic process. "I understand that it is Brazil's national pride that is in question," said Rabbi Hier, "so it is difficult for them to say that American experts are going to be the ones at the table. But that is exactly what is going to happen." West Germany also sent over three forensic specialists to watch the proceedings...
Nonetheless, the Mengeles seemed certain to retain the loyalty of many of Gunzburg's citizens, in large measure because of local pride in and reliance on the Mengele firm. The company was founded in 1907 by Karl Mengele, Josef's father and the man to whom the family's passion for privacy and self-reliance can be traced. During his military service in World War I, the elder Mengele left his wife in charge of his business, establishing a tradition of keeping the firm securely in family hands...