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By chance I was just reading the stories of some Chinese immigrants to Liverpool. This is interesting to me for lots of reasons, particularly because I come from near Liverpool.
Still lots of people are emigrating from lots of different countries to lots of other countries. East London is still welcoming immigrants, like it has done for a long time, though you don't hear much Yiddish round there any more.
The thing is, even if you have lived in the same place all your life, you have got there from somewhere. Even if you think there is nothing before we are born, it is still somewhere else, somewhere not here, not now. So that's worth thinking about. Welcome!
The stories I read are nearer the bottom of the page which you can find here. It seems people had to work very hard.
Still lots of people are emigrating from lots of different countries to lots of other countries. East London is still welcoming immigrants, like it has done for a long time, though you don't hear much Yiddish round there any more.
The thing is, even if you have lived in the same place all your life, you have got there from somewhere. Even if you think there is nothing before we are born, it is still somewhere else, somewhere not here, not now. So that's worth thinking about. Welcome!
The stories I read are nearer the bottom of the page which you can find here. It seems people had to work very hard.
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