Posted on 01/16/2018 8:04:17 AM PST by artichokegrower
“Giants in the Earth”
One of the best books you will ever read. PERIOD.
The other two of the trilogy, not so much.
Read it and enjoy it.
No matter where your family came from.
Was used in schools everywhere, until 1950’s.
https://www.amazon.com/Giants-Earth-Prairie-Perennial-Classics/dp/0060931930
Giants in the Earth is Ole Edvart Rølvaag’s classic Norweigian-American immigration novel. Part of a trilogy, the novel follows a Norwegian pioneer family’s struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America. The book is based partly on Rølvaag’s personal experiences ...
What a coincidence! My family was run out of Germany for being ugly!
Yes, and the government did not supply them with financial or social assistance programs to integrate and assimilate, nor did the government provide them with Norwegian language based “English as a second language” assistance in the schools, nor anywhere else. Unlike everyone INSISTS “must” be provided today to certain classes of immigrants and not just LEGAL immigrants. Nor did they get food stamps, Medicaid or many other welfare helps. And yet, amazingly by today’s standards they managed to progress and assimilate in society.
Exactly. No freebies. No coddling. Come and work your butts off.
And you can be free.
You mean this person? : )
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Of course, back then there was no welfare and you had to work. Now people from Haiti, El Salvador, and Africa have an unemployment rare of 89-92% (2016 figures).
Kirstjen Nielsen
White Europeans in general have no desire to migrate to the USA. They prefer countries like Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
My parents visited me after I had been in the US for 30 years and they could not wait to board that Lufthansa flight back home. They told me they found America a scary place. I don’t think that this country can expect immigration from Europe for the next century. I find that the only concern Europeans have is when and where to go on their next vacation.
Yeah. Were many of them like Thor Gunderson?
>>I don’t think that this country can expect immigration from Europe for the next century.
If I wasn’t an American, I wouldn’t want to immigrate here either. People who have jobs work themselves to death. The cities are shitholes. Health care is a disaster. The racial troubles are only getting worse. I’d go to Canada, NZ, and Australia too.
Or maybe it was Swedes, since everybody thought he was a Swede.
Random Facts: The actor who played Thor Gundersen (Christopher Heyerdahl) says his father was a cousin of famous Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl.
Time was, you could take Norwegian as your foreign language in high school in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
There were that many Norwegians there years ago.
The Bunkhouse BBQ in Clifton has the by gosh finest brisket on this rock-ball...hands down.
I make a pilgrimage there every time I visit my mom in Whitney.
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