And you can stand tall and straight as you dwell on Cretans---your ancestors and yourselves! And you can take justifiable satisfaction in the progress you have made in this country. The saga of Greek immigration to the U.S. is altogether unusual. Driven by poverty from the stony fields of Thessaly. and the rocky islets of the Aegean. nearly 70% of all Greek immigrants arrived here in a single wave during the first two decades of the present century. So unlike other recent arrivals. they could not count upon compatriots who had come here earlier. to assist them in the process of entering their new. strange. complex individual society. It is not an easy taskit never isto leave ones homeland and travel thousands of miles to a new place. You bring strange sounding names from fax away places to a new and untried area . . . where acceptance is not easy and too often. hostile and repelling. So. you gathered in your own communitiesamong fellow immigrants and looked to your church and your own clubs and societies for guidance and assistance. That is why the Cretan Association MinosCrete sprung into being. And this association responded magnificently to the cry of its members as it dwelled upon a program of mutual assistancenot alone to Cretans herebut back in its native island.
Keywords matched
immigration immigrants