Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City, where they are politely known to real estate agents and party hostesses as multinationals. Dimitri Karageorge, 27, Prince of Yugoslavia, an E.F. Hutton stockbroker by day, has mastered American directness and uses a different word: "Eurotrash. People say we are a little idle, a little too rich. I suppose it's true." After work or shopping, the teenage countesses and bejeaned barons gather at Club A, a jewel-box disco, to dance, gossip and compare invitations. "It's all a game to them," says a Columbia University business student, Jeffrey von der Schulenburg, 27, a German count...
Perhaps not surprisingly, most of the immigrant rich have come not to be entertained but to work. Young brokers, bankers and boutiquers emigrate because old-country commerce is too tradition-bound, slow and unresponsive for them. Even for someone with influence, it can take a month to get a phone installed in England, and no one would ever call a broker on the weekend. "In Switzerland if you ask, 'Why?', they tell you, 'Because that's the way it is,' " says New York Art Dealer Bettina Sulzer Milliken, 36, daughter of a Swiss industrialist, who with her American husband runs...
...methodology is challenged by other academics, estimates that for every 100 illegal immigrants who work in urban areas, at least 65 Americans or legal aliens lose out. David North, an expert on immigration with the New TransCentury Foundation in Washington, agrees. Says he: "Illegal aliens are good for the rich and hard on the poor. They help a narrow and powerful band of interests and hurt a large and silent population...
...along with many of their neighbors throughout Asia, merely waited 500 years before turning Stewart's whimsy into something approaching reality. From the Flushing neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens to the Sunset district of San Francisco, from the boatyards of Galveston Bay to the rich Minnesota farmlands, a burgeoning wave of Asian immigrants is pouring into the U.S. Some of the newcomers do indeed continue to wear the comfortable flowing garments of their native lands. And in cities like Westminster, a Los Angeles suburb, an elaborately decorated archway stands prominently among shops that are designed...
Given the rich diversity of Asian immigrants' backgrounds, it is all but impossible to generalize about their experiences in becoming Americans. For many the closest thing to a common hurdle is the daunting necessity of adjusting to a new culture, an especially difficult challenge to non-English speakers. "English is the great prohibitor," says Martha Copenhaver, the director of a Southeast Asian education program in Arlington, Va. "Without it, you can't advance even if you are otherwise qualified...