Selected Events 2005

November 28, 2005. Museum für Völkerkunde, Rothenbaumchaussee 64, 20148 Hamburg, 7 p.m.

Tamar Jacoby: America's New Immigrants - Reinventing the Melting Pot

With roughly 1,5 million new immigrants arriving each year, the United States is once again facing a historic challenge: how most effectively to absorb these newcomers into the fabric of American life. What does it mean to become American - or European - in an era of globalization, cultural separatism, identity politics, the Internet and a TV remote with a hundred or more different channels?