On his first day home, his father organized a celebration in the village for his favourite son, who had brought honour to the family by going all the way to America.

回家的第一天，他父亲为最钟爱的小儿子在村里庆祝了一场，因为他去美国为家里争了光。

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Often in America "the church is the village," says Stephen Klineberg, a sociologist at Rice University in Houston.

往往在美国，“教堂就是村子”，休斯敦rice大学的社会学者Stephen Klineberg如是说。

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America is the only country I have seen where farmers do not live today inclose, safe village-groups.

美国是今日我所见过的唯一国家，农夫们不会紧紧挨在一起，住在安全的集体村庄里。

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And in today's global village, some think Latin America, Japan and Korea are due to follow the myriad U.S. cities that the league has spread its wings to throughout its history.

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America was dismissed as a debt-fuelled Potemkin village.

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I'm not that far off, according to Steven Taffel, the proprietor of Leffot, a gorgeous little humidor of fine men's shoes in Manhattan's West Village and the sole outlet for Corthay in America.

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