The Norwegians heard America was a land of opportunity, with streets paved with gold. The Statue of Liberty greeted them with an inscription, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" However, when they arrived, immigrants found that our streets were no different than the ones they left. While there were opportunities and more freedom, it wasn't until their second and third generation that some of those opportunities began to open up to them.
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