"The younger people promote the Portuguese festival that takes place every year, they've opened restaurants, they promote voter registration," Lobo says. "They will maintain the tradition."
It seems as though the older generation will not let them forget.
"The old people idealize Portugal," Cerqueira says. "They always say that they'd go back, if it weren't for their children who live here. I think that if they had to go back, and hang around there, then they'd get to miss this place instead. After you've lived in a certain area for a long time, it just becomes your home."
Putting Down Roots
But Argaw says the Ethiopian immigrants are determined to make this place their home.
When Argaw's first niece was born in Cambridge, she had to be baptized in an Armenian church, since there were no Ethiopian churches in the area.
"I was worried," Argaw says. "Religion gives you some guidance. I didn't want the first generation born in Cambridge to grow up without religion."
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