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C onn ect i ng C u ltu r es T hrough F am i ly and F ood

immigrantscametotheUnitedStates insearchof economicoreducational opportunitiesandviewed theUnited States as a place to work— to them, America was never intended to be home the way Thailand had been.

Interestingly, whether these pioneer immigrants were eager to assimilate (which means to inte- grate into a larger culture) or re- jected the idea completely, they all tended to view life inAmerica as an

Thai restaurants are not hard to find in American and European cities.