A Refugee in Puerto Rico, 1942: Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Burden of Archives

I get the not wanting to be sentimental (I did get rid of nearly everything I owned once) but there’s a modicum of things people may want to keep and may regret not keeping: things related to family ancestry, pivotal life events come to mind.

More generally: I still don’t fathom the populist, knee-jerk, sweeping generalizations of castigating and demonizing immigrants and refugees whom the Western countries created, and that often they themselves were once also. If a country becomes predominantly xenophobic, like say China or Japan were long ago, they fall into backwards ways: socially, politically, economically and technologically. It shouldn’t be a political or partisan animosity issue that should be argued over or not discussed at all via the isolation of separation political universes, but a strength of values, integrity, community and collaboration with those whom may build future gigabusinesses elsewhere. Self-interest would welcome intellectuals, engineers, entrepreneurs and others with open arms and facilitate their integration as fast as they would like. Immigration is a form of customer service that signals values and qualities of the country... is our or your OOBE good?