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Article: Chamber music
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- Smart Business Atlanta
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- June 1, 2005
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When Sara Gonzalez came to the United States in the 1960s from Cuba, there was no infrastructure in place to teach Hispanic immigrants the intricacies of the American way of life.
Today, as president of the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, she works to make sure that the thousands of Latino immigrants arriving in Georgia each year have advantages that were unavailable to her 40 years ago.
"It's very important to educate," she says. "When in Rome, do as the Romans do. We all come from very different backgrounds, very different countries (with) many different rules and regulations, and we need to abide for (those) here.
"That doesn't mean we need to lose our culture, but that is in our ...