Face to Face with Faces of America

     For last few days I have been watching a series called Faces of America learning about the immigrant background of some famous people in American culture.  I found the main gist of these episodes to be attempting to demonstrate how America's past as a nation of immigrants is intricately woven through everyone living here today. Among the people interviewed the most notable to me was Yo-Yo Ma and Stephen Colbert. In the interview both shared a little of what they knew about their background and how they came to be here in the U.S.A. I was surprised to find Yo-Yo Ma was only able to stay in America because by chance his father was offered a job as a music teacher just before they were to leave to return to China.