Hello family,

I am writing from my new home in the United States. We arrived in New York City a couple of weeks ago and it has been such a major change from our lives in Italy. We first went in search of more italians that may be in New York, and we soon found that there was as it seemed a small part of Italy located in NY. There is a small district of NY that is completely consisted of Italians. There are even many places like grocery stores and restaurants that sell authentic italian food.

It is very comforting to be surrounded by other italians that understand what we are going through. We have such a good sense of our community and we feel very comfortable around our neighborhood. The people here in our community were extremely inviting and accepting of new people coming into their neighborhood. We have not experienced the same kind of acceptance all across the city though. It seems like there are many other races that do not really enjoy our company in the city, like the whites for example. I think they feel as if we are coming in and taking over their country, but in fact we just want to be a part of it. I want to be americanized and I feel that is a pretty common idea across all the different ethnic communities.