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The American dream may be a musty old relic in the minds of some American elites, but for Annique Lambe--who arrived in the U.S. 12 years ago from Ireland--it is alive and well. Now a schoolteacher in Manhattan, she marvels at the energy and opportunity that she and other friends who are also recent immigrants from Europe have found on these shores.
"New York is a huge place where something is always happening," she says in a soft Irish lilt. "Now I am a part of it, living among the big towers and the skyline. It seems miraculous to me."
From the seventeenth century on, waves of immigrants from the European continent played a primary role in forming ...