“migration”
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Predictably, I found this deeply, personally moving.
[Having to live in Canada so his spouse can work,] He misses interaction with colleagues. It hinders efficiency, slows work. He is physically drained from travel. He is frustrated that he cannot put down roots in America, and maybe start his own company, because he cannot leave Google, his visa sponsor.
He says he feels, on one hand, great gratitude that America gave him extraordinary opportunity. But he says he fulfilled his side of the bargain by striving and succeeding. [He became a multimillionaire with Google stock.] “Dude, I love this country,” he said.
But he doesn’t feel loved back: “My devotion is unrequited.”
Apropos of Elie Wiesel, I’m in the strange process of choosing a name for myself that Americans can pronounce. Most automatically call me “ely” (ee-lie, rhymes with fry) but I’m not a big fan. I think I’m going to go with “elie” (eh-lee, rhymes with jelly), which I like the sound of. Plus, I totally dig girlboy names.
A fun thing, renaming oneself. We should do it more often.
 After 3 years of searching for local soulmates in this middle-of-Mexico, beautiful-but-digitally-backward city of mine, as I’m packing for the states, I google idly on San Francisco and, behold, I find the incredible blog of a Guadalajara genius with the same web obsession, the same reading compulsion, the same format fiddly inclinations, the same penchant for writing only in overcrafted English, the same relocation (his some 2.5 years ago, to go work with Max Levchin ELZR, no less).
His name’s Sergio I. Villarreal Pou and following his commenters’ links I’ve found a tangle of worthy local websites (say, the multiple-personality disorder No Limit studio or the gorgeous Arathael) that opens up what is to me a wholly uncharted local sphere. Which I’ll probably be exploring some thousand miles away…
“Jalisco va a dominar el mundo,” says one of dad’s friends from Los Altos, a migrant region of Jalisco. “Estados Unidos va a dominar el mundo y los Jalisquillos van a dominar Estados Unidos.”
English first names might be all the rage in MexicoELZR, but haven’t you noticed how American Hispanic last names are starting to sound? I’m not just taking about Jennifer Lopez, Cameron Diaz, or Ricky Martin, I’m talking biotechnologist Juan EnriquezWP, essayist Richard RodriguezWP, ELZR, dancer David BernalYT, WP, Google’s George ReyesWP, ABC’s Elizabeth VargasWP, filmmaker Robert RodiguezWP, Synopsys’s Brian CabreraF, cartoonist Michael RamirezWP, YouTVPC’s Sam MartinezWSJ, actresses Sara RamirezWP and Michelle RodriguezWP, jurist Alberto GonzalesWP. It is not my intention to give a Hispanic hit paradeWP, my only point here is how through habituation these most Latin of last names are getting an English ring to them.
Las caricaturas de atras del Ocio, Pupa y Lavinia, de un humor neurotico y feminista (muy a la MaitenaWP, IY) que me fascina, son de ella y su trabajo de diseño tambien es muy chido.
No se por que me dio un gusto raro saber que es tapatía, ojala algun dia pueda conocerla (creo que anda por Canada). Bueno, el punto es que es mucho muy buena. Leanla. ^_^
Which is quite amazing, I must say. Always thought the English colony would have English at the top, by far.
Check the US Census press release where this was reported for definitions and more context.
Sergio (MdC), one of my best friends, went last sixmonth to Ciudad JuarezWP for a paid internship he got through his school. He went there with a schoolmate that went for the same reason. This roommate, I learned a couple of days ago, turns out to have Gael GarciaWP as a cousin. Gael Garcia dated (dates?) Natalie PortmanWP So You → Me → Sergio → Roommate → Gael Garcia → Natalie Portman makes for five degrees of separation. Which is a deep, marvelous fact about the world that you should ponder at length.
(Five degrees is only an upper boundWP. You, dear reader, could be even closer to Natalie—if so, please detail in the comments. You could even be Natalie herself—if so, my cell number’s on the left. Thanks!)
Continuing that foreign names thread, GuzmanWP, ELZR (a small, not particularly migrant town in my state) offers these intriguing sights, pocho on so many levels:
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Mexicanos. Me gustaria fueran mas conocidas y aprovechadas, por lo que las comparto aqui desapasionadamente pues si creo en el consejo es cuando es 
Española con solo 2 años de residencia legal
Union Europea, un pasaporte Español permite agencia libre dentro del bloque economico mas grande del mundo, mas de 500 millones de almas.
