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During the last big immigration wave(1880-1910) it was 30% of the new immigrants that went back to the old country-couldn’t hack it here-no freebees.

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My grandparents came from Italy somewhere around that time. When I was really young, I remember my maternal grandmother saying in broken English “We spoke Italian in the house but always spoke English outside the house.” It was done to communicate, learn, and become Americans.