I didn't speak English, and I experienced the competitiveness of America, and it's a profoundly cruel childhood culture.” ĭíaz attended Kean College in Union, New Jersey for one year before transferring and ultimately completing his B.A. The people living in his neighborhood, Díaz says, were "colorful, poor, working, and transitional," and the area itself was "no joke," but his family was "already accustomed to a very rough-and-tumble upbringing." Of himself, Díaz says, "I was a child. first, got a job at a Reynolds aluminum warehouse in Elizabeth, N.J., and Díaz, his mother, and four siblings followed five years later in 1974. It makes recollection very, very sharp." Díaz's father came to the U.S.
When asked if he remembers the experience, he says: "If I burn your entire country down, would you remember being six or seven? There is nothing like the trauma of losing one's country and gaining another.
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