I am an immigrant, and white

Tom Dierolf
Brevard, NC

If you saw a photo of me among asian, black and latino faces, and asked to pick the immigrants to the U.S., you would probably not pick me. But I immigrated from Germany in 1960, and I know that all of the others in the photo could have had family living for many generations in the U.S.


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