While the American society is based on more practical elements such as free trade, commerce and entrepreneurship, the immigrants bring with them a different set of values with more focus on personal relations and traditions. From this point-of-view, one could explain the discrepancy between the two sides and the subsequent separation, to the detriment of the minorities. However, the tendency is quite obvious. Stoller expresses it from the very beginning, in the title of the book which represents the commercial creed of his character. "Money has no smell" indeed for the immigrants who are trying to adapt tot the conditions of the American society, "I sell my products to any person, Christian or Mulsmi, pastors or drug dealers, for if I am honest, money has...

From an economic, social and even individual point-of-view, there is still a concrete tendency for the isolation if not exclusion of immigrants. Nonetheless, the latter are making tough but pragmatic efforts to adapt to the realities of their adoptive country.
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Stoller, Paul. Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City. Chicago: University of Chicago…