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Message: [QUOTE="BroadwayVa, post: 2035094, member: 6118"] Good father -Daughter piece. What hit me in the forehead was --he arrived here in the 60's when Italians were not treated well--or words to that effect! EVERY nationality has thought they themselve were discriminated against. My Irish grandmother --who was born in Newtown--her sibling born in Ireland--thought they were treated badly because of their brogue. My French Canadian relatives insist they were discriminated because of their accents. My wife was denied housing in Bristol because ---her/my last name was French Canadian--they called her a Maine-iac. I lived in Puerto Rico and saw the similarity to the --un-welcomingness of Waterbury and Boston--for PR people, born as US citizen, but spoke Spanish. Terryville was 90 percent Polish and Russian, and Slavic--yes they were treated poorly because of their accents and names. All those new to the shores of the USA are not welcomed with open arms--and it has never been so. Native populations in Connecticut were not happy with the English--check it out it is Connecticut history. [/QUOTE]