And there is a grudging fairness among the citizens of the United States that eventually leads most to admit that … the new immigrants are not so different from our own parents or grandparents. Leonel Castillo … once told the writer Studs Terkel proudly, "The old neighborhood Ma-Pa stores are still around.… Ma and Pa are now Korean, Vietnamese, Iraqi, Jordanian, Latin American. They live in the store. They work seven days a week. Their kids are doing well in school. They're making it."