The Big Picture
News Stories in Photographs
Immigration: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/06/immigration.html
"...All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured mementoes and old photographs, until even their owners fail to recognize them, because it is the fate of migrants to be stripped of history, to stand naked amidist the scorn of strangers upon whom they see rich clothing, the brocades of continuity and the eyebrows of belonging..."
'Shame'
Salman Rushdie
News Stories in Photographs
Immigration: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/06/immigration.html
"...All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured mementoes and old photographs, until even their owners fail to recognize them, because it is the fate of migrants to be stripped of history, to stand naked amidist the scorn of strangers upon whom they see rich clothing, the brocades of continuity and the eyebrows of belonging..."
'Shame'
Salman Rushdie
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