They are very sensitive to the good news and even the bad news of our home. Every Haitian comes here with the dream of making some kind of difference in the immediate family. But recently many preachers, myself in particular, have been encouraging Haitians to be more realistic and to have stronger roots in America. They often have the feeling that sooner or later they will be in Haiti to die and somehow realize that they have died and gone straight to heaven without returning to Haiti. Right now and over the past ten years, there has been a stronger tendency to take hold of life in America.
People invest more in real estate.
And we find even adults going to school to get ready to take a better career. One characteristic of the Haitian community is the emphasis on education. Children must go to school and parents still get mad when children have poor grades. Some Haitian families try to dream the very best for their children in terms of profession. This leads to a political question.