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One Foot in Each Culture: A Romanian Community in Ohio |
| Section: CULTURE / HERITAGE |
| Author: Sarah T. Carter |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 4,105 Words, 25,559 Characters |
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It has been said that Romanians do not make good immigrants because they never forget where they came from, but in fact as an immigrant group they have been unusually successful. For example, U.S. census records from 1900 to 1950 show that although most pre-World War II Romanian immigrants were uneducated country people, a higher than average proportion became managers and sales workers, and fewer worked as common laborers. By 1950, their children had entered professional fields in greater numbers, proportionately, than those of any other immigrant group, and that trend has continued among both men and women in Romanian communities around the country.
Fr. Ian Pac-Urar, formerly a Romanian Orthodox deacon in Canton, Ohio, and now a priest in nearby Akron, says this may be because the n...
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...cel without breaking the lines and circles that give form to their dance-such traditions still appear to express a key principle of Romanian American life. As a group, Romanian Americans have been remarkably successful by modern American standards and their second, third, and fourth generations, far from losing their balance, seem to draw strength form standing with one foot in each culture.
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