DISQUS

Stephan de Penasse · 2 years ago

Nick:

Welcomed to Eduardo.


I too came from Brazil (via Canada where I lived 18 years) when I got a job transfer to New Hampshire and settled here. Few people know I am actually Brazilian.


The community is growing here (has been since Nashua was voted best small city to live in USA) and with this comes cultural differences and changes.


To have coverage of the Brazilian community is nice, but one must remember that Brazilians in not the only recent ethnic group to establish in this area. The is growing contingent from Hispanic countires in Latin America, new Canadian groups and former Soviet countries.


With this addition I trust Eduardo is also a resident in the area so that he not only reports about the community but also understands who they are. I sometimes do, but having been so integrated with my family here (my wife is a native of Nashua and we have 2 boys ages 9 and 7) I hardly "blend" with the Brazilian community (in terms of festivities, etc) other than going to local stores and restaurants.


I believe there are two "Brazilian Worlds here", with distinct phylosophies. Something that perhaps can be a topic of future discussion.

Pattie · 2 years ago

Hi Nick, You continue to amaze me with your new ideas and interests for the betterment of the Telegraph. You are doing an incredible job as Editor-in-Chief. Just think I knew you when. Take care, my friend and keep in touch.

Crow · 2 years ago

This doesn't tell us much about Eduardo's actual product. Is he going to be covering the legal immigrant community, or the criminal alien immigrant community, or both? It would be unsatisfactory if he started writing copy sympathetic and supportive of the open-borders crowd, encouraging Federal felonies, which is quite against super-majority American sentiment.

John Bachman · 2 years ago

Crow, for cripes sake the guy has not written word one but you can anticipate his take on illegal immigrants?

Read his columns with an open mind and then form your opionion based on that, not on your imagination.

Stacy Milbouer · 2 years ago

Hi Eduardo,

As you can see by the above dialogue having a place on Monday's Telegraph front page will be a great place for people to read about our rich and growing immigrant community. I've always been proud of the fact that our newspaper keeps up with trends and issues in journalism and our community and I'm thrilled your column will help us all stay in touch with all our readers. I look forward to sharing a month of Mondays with you and to reading your columns. Best of luck and welcome.

Ellen Hume · 2 years ago

Eduardo is a wonderful, principled journalist and this should be a good source of information for everyone! He also contributes to our New England Ethnic Newswire (www.go-NEWz.com) which we publish online out of the University of Massachusetts Boston's Center on Media and Society, to aggregate the most interesting ethnic media stories and opinion each week from New England. We welcome everyone's feedback and contributions to the NEWz wire. Good luck!

Kirby F. Smith · 2 years ago

Nick,

I read Eduardo's column a few minutes ago and liked it very much.

I have been very concerned about all the immigrant-bashing in the news lately, and I think this new column serves as an important corrective.

Bill Dedman · 2 years ago

Nick, What a wonderful idea! A great way to add more voices to the paper, and help the paper and its readers get to know minority communities.

Dave Burgess · 2 years ago

Nick & Eduardo -

I very much enjoyed the first of - I hope - many Monday columns from you, Eduardo. Switching between you and Stacy Milbouer seems like a good idea to me for you to get started here, but after a month or two, maybe you could have Mondays, Stacy Tuesdays, something like that. She also is an excellent writer, and instead of competition, I'd like to see complimentary words-at-work.

It is a sad current state of affairs when an article such as 6/4/07's is necessary, but it is. We are almost all immigrants, maybe not first generation, but immigrants all the same. Hopefully, by the time my daughter has kids, people will have grown up...

Best of wishes for your new paper, Eduardo, and keep up the great work!

P.S. Thank you, Nick, for making this forum possible.

Dave Burgess · 2 years ago

Mr. Bachman, thank you for your correcting "Crow". Eduardo's first article hadn't even been printed yet, and immigrant-bashing started.

To "Crow", where did you dream up American "super majority" supports your views?

smkab · 2 years ago

wow. very interesting.