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MEMORY. "Questo paese è stranzo!"
04 11 2007
by Alyssa Shea
A short video made for a high school Italian class purports to illustrate an Italian family emigrating to the U.S. in the 1920's. Despite its uncertain Italian, it captures the difficulty of settling down in a different and even hostile environment.
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