When a young woman from Norway moved to America, she chose not to live in the largely Scandinavian area of rural Minnesota where her relatives had settled. Instead she chose New York City.
Several years after her arrival, she paid a visit to her family in Minnesota. Her cousins asked her why anyone from a land of open and beautiful fjords would want to live in such a crowded urban setting like New York City. One of her American relatives said that her cousin’s answer grew more meaningful with each passing year. “You see,” she said with a gentle accent, “in Norway we have only Norwegians. But in America you have everybody!”
-Sanvik, D. R. (adapted).
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