Otter Tail County Historical Society
In a 1938 essay, “The Problem of the Third Generation Immigrant,” Marcus Lee Hansen first presented Hansen's Law: “What the son wishes to forget the grandson wishes to remember.” This law predicts that ethnicity is preserved among immigrants, weakens among their children, and returns with the grandchildren. Children of immigrants tend to reject the foreign ways of their parents, including their religion, and want to join the American mainstream, but the next generation wants to retain the values of their ancestors.
This is Chris's demo reel from 2019 showing many
of the projects he was involved with.