PART 3 Migration and relationship with “origins” Moreover another thing happens: time pass, and passing time modifies also the place of origin. I remember one day I was talking to a girl with an Italian heritage, about this topic. She complained about the “strict” Italian mentality of her granny (yes, the stereotype you all think about Italians), declaring that it was strict because it was Italian. But it was strict because it was a 1930 mentality, maybe just a little bit worsened by the Italian origin. Cultures are in continuous evolution, so my mum’s Italy is no longer mine. Or at least, there are substantial differences. Particularly in the last century that was characterized by an increased speed in changes. The third generation, if immigration take place in an inclusive culture (it means if the ethnic group isn’t forced to keep close to survive, fighting against the community they are entering), lose at ninety nine percent the links to their grandparents’ origin. They lose the language, lose the mentality, the gap start being so wide and deep that the micro points of contact can be considered almost meaningless. They still remember something that was told by their relatives, but is something far away from the real world they live in. They set up families with other culture’s members and become part of their culture. Which is a very good and natural thing, I think. Maybe some fossils can survive, such as very special traditions during feasts, food traditions, some words used in the domestic context, but they are more related to a domestic familiar context than to some connection to the original context. And this traces in fact, in most cases, lose the true original meaning and acquire new meanings that are a sort of mediation between the two mixing cultures. So, I think, three generations is the time required for a full assimilation of a stranger population in a different culture, supposing to find an inclusive environment.