My young, Hungarian neighbor recently showed me on his cell phone a clip that was shared between a group of Hungarians in America (soon to become citizens) and people in Hungary as the Hungarian soccer team won. How amazing this is, to be able to do it, and how different today's immigrants have it from those who came in the 1800's and early 1900's. To be able to see each other's faces, to be part of a celebration so very long distance, by cell phone, and to keep that memory in the cell phone (for as long as the phone lasts, or for as long as it takes to move that clip to some other storage system), it's a visit, it's almost as if they are not half a world a way at all.
And I must say, be they here in California, or there in Hungary, the people looked alike, dressed in their soccer sportsmanship and fan finery.
