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    How to Survive America?: (A Guide for Immigrants and Everyone Else Who Wants to Live in America)
    How to Survive America?: (A Guide for Immigrants and Everyone Else Who Wants to Live in America)
    How to Survive America?: (A Guide for Immigrants and Everyone Else Who Wants to Live in America)
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    How to Survive America?: (A Guide for Immigrants and Everyone Else Who Wants to Live in America)

    By Steven Fazekas

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    While this book is intended for people who wish to immigrate to America, others like: visitors, businessmen and tourists can also benefit from its guidance. Indeed it is a guidebook, a self-help how to do that is essential for everyone wanting to know the real America.
    The author is a seasoned immigrant who had lived in many countries (as an immigrant) prior to coming to America. That experience enabled him to contrast the good, the bad, the ugly and the in-between with the dreams, expectations and illusions of new immigrants coming to this country. Based on personal experiences from the beginning to the end, this book is a must read for all immigrants and visitors coming to America.
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    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateAug 1, 2013
    ISBN9781481774727
    How to Survive America?: (A Guide for Immigrants and Everyone Else Who Wants to Live in America)
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    Steven Fazekas

    Steven Fazekas immigrated in the United States of America on 1986. Prior to coming to America, he already lived as an immigrant in Italy, Britain and South Africa. They each had good and bad to offer, but generally they all have his thanks and compliments. Nevertheless, America is the only country that made him feel at home right from the start, perhaps because in here, everyone else is an immigrant. Most came long before he had arrived, but none have more rights or duties than him.

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      How to Survive America? - Steven Fazekas

      HOW TO

      SURVIVE

      AMERICA?

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      A Guide for Immigrants

      and anyone Else Who Wants

      to Live in America

      Steven Fazekas

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      AuthorHouse™ LLC

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.authorhouse.com

      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

      © 2013 Steven Fazekas. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 07/17/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-7473-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-7472-7 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013912357

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      CONTENTS

      Preface/ Introduction

      America: An Overview

      Chapter 1

      Entry

      Chapter 2

      Employment

      Chapter 3

      Housing

      Chapter 4

      Transportation

      Chapter 5

      Schools & Education

      Chapter 6

      Health, Hospitals, Doctors, Insurance Or Lack Of It

      Chapter 7

      Religion/Charity

      Chapter 8

      Rights Vs. Duties

      Chapter 9

      Politics

      Chapter 10

      Police, Lawyers And The Justice System

      Chapter 11

      Crime And Punishment—Jail, Prisons, Penitentiaries

      Chapter 12

      American Women/American Men

      Chapter 13

      Social Life/Family Life/Sports And Entertainment

      Chapter 14

      Marriage/Divorce

      Chapter 15

      Social Issues & Challenges

      Chapter 16

      Money Matters; Banks, Credit Cards, Savings

      Chapter 17

      Social Security, Pension & Retirement

      Chapter 18

      American Kitchen

      Chapter 19

      Fashion, Trend, Fad

      Chapter 20

      Guns And The American Psyche

      Chapter 21

      Government Agencies/Business Opportunities

      Conclusion

      ‘American Lorelei’

      (A Reply To Emma Lazarus)

      by

      Steven Fazekas

      The world’s Miss World you were for sure,

      When longed for you from other shores.

      Your rights, might, virtues seemed so certain,

      When longed for you from behind the curtain.

      From far away your sweet voice enticed,

      You appeared with chaste and no vice.

      Through seven seas and many lands,

      Came to you children, women and men.

      Tired, poor no longer—exalted more and more,

      Homeless, wretched—homegrown—teeming on your shore.

      Schooled from ancient lands built you Los Alamos,

      New masses now babysit and pick you tomatoes.

      Your huddled are now cuddled, the once wretched refuse

      Trade marked your name and turned your light obtuse.

      The chain at your feet not melted in the pot,

      Its links (being) reused to lock the golden door.

      PREFACE/

      INTRODUCTION

      So you had decided to fulfill your lifetime dream to immigrate to the United States of America. You may have been here before on a business trip or as a tourist. Perhaps you seen this place only in the movies or read about it; any which way you fell in love with the country—you were totally impressed and infatuated by it. Now it is time to look beyond the movies, time to read the small print, more specifically it is time to use this guide book in order to survive the details of this country.

      You might already be inside America or en route to it. You may be one of those who managed to obtain an immigration permit or by the virtue of your own country’s standing with the USA you may even been given an expedited residency. On the other hand, you might be the one who had no patience for formalities because by the country of your origin or due to your own background you just simply did not qualify, hence you took a not so legal route to it.

      All of you however, legal and illegal aliens, visitors and immigrants alike need to study up on this book for your own benefit. In summary, this publication is intended for all those fortunate or unfortunate souls who for better or worse chose America for their new country.

      Whatever is your race, gender, age, religion, country of origin, qualification and level of education or previous experience America will shock you and surprise you for sure. This is where you will find the good, the bad and the ugly (and everything else in between). You will find out sooner than later that you arrived on a different planet. You will have a cultural shock to say the least. Indeed America is so unique that there is no other place like it on earth; guaranteed. This uniqueness is not to be confused with exceptionalism which most Americans fervently believe.

      Exceptionalism or more specifically American exceptionalism is a doctrine which states that America is above everything: it is exceptional in culture, talent, achievement, behavior, history, destiny and most of all in material well-being. America claims to have a mission to save the world therefore, it claims to have been better and always be better than any other nation on earth. Well, here is your chance to be the judge of it.

      AMERICA:

      AN OVERVIEW

      America is the nation of immigrants. This is an overused phrase, a cliché to say the least nevertheless, it is true. You are going to be part of this nation since you are an immigrant too. Never mind that you are legal or illegal the country will absorb you soon. Naturally this process is longer for illegal immigrants but ultimately it is the same for all of you.

      Other than the Native Indians everyone in the USA has originated—and some are not so long ago—from outside of this beautiful land. Most arrived to the country well ahead of you, hence they have an advantage over you. Essentially they caught an earlier ride therefore they have a better seat at the table and are nearer to the smorgasbord. Indeed America is a smorgasbord, it has a variety of offerings and it is up to you what you take from it or how you contribute to it. Of course—theoretically at least—everyone should bring something to the table, including you. Naturally, like in every family, someone always takes more than they give. If you contribute less than what you take you likely be relegated to the bottom soon. In America however, you will have ample opportunities to take as well as contribute.

      America’s uniqueness lies in the fact that here more than in any other country individuality is nurtured, revered, and often comes first. Naturally this is a double-edged sword and the quicker you get used to it the quicker you will succeed. In America by and large you are on your own, and that’s how it should be. You may hail from a country where individualism had taken a back seat. Indeed in most countries of today individualism is subjugated to the well-being of the community. Not in America. After all this is a liberal capitalist country. Theoretically you have more rights than the community although you often have to stand up for it. This could be good or bad since this knife can and will cut both ways. You might be amused or amazed by a girl’s demand to be accepted into the Boy Scouts, or a handicapped person’s right to a special bathroom or to an elevator in an industrial facility where he or she otherwise could not be useful.

      From the first day in America you will be bombarded with slogans. Some are true, most are nonsense. You will be often reminded that you are the master of your own destiny, life is what you make of it, everyone has the same chance and you can pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Depending on your good or bad luck and on circumstances you might find that they bear no resemblance to the truth. Nevertheless, you will work, struggle, create, destroy, succeed, fail, and ultimately stay. Once you came over here there is no going back. You will bitch, complain, laugh, or cry. You may love it or hate it, but you will always stay. You will visit your old country often or never, but the longer you have stayed in America you will find your old country exactly that: old and strange. You may fight and resist America’s influence and you could try to cling onto your home country’s traditions but despite your attempt that country is not your children’s. Once they are raised in America they are Americans even if they were not born here. You may hang unto your foreign accent—unintentionally perhaps—but you prefer an American passport when you travel. American citizenship has its advantages and after all this is what you always wanted. The path is not always easy but you chose it, you wanted it. As time moves on your excitement may give way to regret. At your first disappointment you realize that this country is not what you had have imagined. America lured you in but it has barriers, hindrances and impediments. With this book however, you can navigate around most of its obstacles. To put it in a nutshell, to survive in America is a demanding process. Are you up to this challenge?

      Chapter 1

      ENTRY

      You are at the airport, perhaps at the seaport or at a border post. The officer is looking at your papers scrutinizing your passport and your appearance. You are nervous, you are fidgeting and perhaps excited. If you are nervous so you should be. You fulfilled all the immigration requirements, you submitted myriad of documents, you gave plenty of evidence that you are worthy of entering into heaven i.e. the United States of America. You went through an inquisitive process, lengthy interviews and waited for months, perhaps for years for this moment. Instead of the red carpet however, you are being tortured by an immigration officer who is taking his sweet time, crossing every ‘T’, dotting every ‘I’. In other words he is making sure that you are indeed who you are and not a fake, not a delinquent. He is paging into your foreign

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