Bringing down walls for ‘The pride of America’.
June 8, 2008
With the immigration issue playing an increasingly significant role in the national debate and the November elections, the Carnegie Corporation of New York has done something unexpected: an ad campaign to subtly advocate the concept of immigration by saluting the contributions of Andrew Carnegie, and “the millions of other immigrants who have made, and continue to make, our nation strong and vibrant.”
The first effort, a full-page ad in last Friday’s edition (July 4th) of The New York Times, featured a group of immigrants of diverse backgrounds, among them Hispanic advertising and marketing icon Daisy Expósito-Ulla. The selection included Nobel Laureate in Physics Riccardo Giacconi, violinist Itzhak Perlman, Dominican-American Pulitzer Prize author Junot Díaz, tennis star Martina Navratilova, celebrated educator Jaime Escalante, journalist Morley Safer, Andrea Jung of Avon, and Chinese-American Academy Award winner film director Ang Lee.
Andrew Carnegie, whose giant legacy includes the prestigious Carnegie Hall, left his native Scotland to come to America in the early part of the 20th century.
