... in which you think you would hear the New York accent the most. According to Dan Kaufman, the co-curator of "Mother Tongues", an exhibit on the decline of the New York accent, "Wealthy people, or middle-class people even, from all over the country, speak quite similarly to each other Working-class people really are the ones who maintain the local dialects." (Lo Wang) This ... wave of Italian immigrants came to New York in the early 1900's, they settled in the East Village. Within this small space, the immigrants settled just as they had lived back in Italy, with "Neapolitans centered aro...

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... observed the impact of the arrival of new technology on the lines of production, which pushed workers out of the fields, taking them to major urban centers in the search for jobs. In 1993, migration in Brazil amounted for 120 million field workers going to the cities, ten times the population of New York City. Salgado claims to understand migration quite well, for in the 1960s ... 's work is linked together like different chapters of the same story, the Migrations Project stands out as the most extraordinary of all, for it conveys the idea of "the physical and personal journey of those w...

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