Host Families

[busker]

My folks thought it was in our best interest that we never learn German. 

I find that to be a characteristic feature of American life of that time, or at least that's what authors have written about.
An idyllic, Smallsville-type, blissfully ignorant of the outside world, white bread and orange cheese, milk-and-crackers antiseptic society.

Yet, it made room for the right kind of immigrants, mainly because it still had a relatively small population, with enough room for suburban sprawl to grow.

But now, all of these erstwhile vast, thinly populated countries, have too many people to absorb large amounts of refugees, even those that look like them.

Fascinating story, yours.