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. When I first came here, it was the beginning of desegregation, when they were just bringing blacks to white schools. I really did not understand what was going on, because that was not part of Haitian culture. But later on I began to discover the value of this. I began to realize that many of the black schools didn t have the best qualifications.