TRADITIONS OF HOME KEPT BY IMMIGRANTS, AS IS AMERICAN DREAM GLOBAL RELATIONS COULD BE IMPROVED BY TRANSNATIONALISM, SOME SAY.(FRONT)

From: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) | Date: April 12, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press

Migrating to another country has always been a life-altering act.

But in the past, when there was no easy air travel to get you across the planet in a few hours, no Internet to give you daily updates on your home country, no e-mail to keep in touch with far-flung relatives, it was also a fairly permanent one.

If you got here, you usually stayed here. You may have held onto your cultural traditions, but the day-...

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