In the Bronx, a Struggle for Cambodian Wave of Refugees
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This made me think of veterans of war for American soldiers who return home from Vietnam to find out they were the object of scorn by those who opposes the war. They are Americans to began with, yet do to the stigma of why America shouldn't been in Vietnam to began with--they too had a hard time adjusting into society already their own.
So yes I can see a similarity of the refugees resettlement: dump them off in a ghetto like Bronx and hope they could figure their way around and fend for themselves. I was in the Bronx once myself visiting a friend who chose to work with the black youth there. I think he is still living there far as I know.
I was fortunate to have come to America in fall of 1976. A church group from Kalona Iowa sponsor around 4 families to that rural (out in the country side) community. A few years later I was placed in a foster home on a farm with pigs and cows. I helped with chores and pick apples. I attended private christian school paid for by the churches that supported the school. Grew up without having a television in the home. Had a lot of fun with the youth from the church I regularly attended. One summer a bunch of youth from different churches in that area went to northern Minnesota to teach bible school, I was one of them. we had a lots of fun in scarying girls of bears roaming around in the woods and coming to the cabin. made friends with pretty girls (students). I even had a Mormon girl had a crush on me.
Now I think refugees would have fair better if they were placed in a smaller cities and had the help from good Christian organizations to hold their hands until they learn to walk again in a strange land.
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This made me think of veterans of war for American soldiers who return home from Vietnam to find out they were the object of scorn by those who opposes the war. They are Americans to began with, yet do to the stigma of why America shouldn't been in Vietnam to began with--they too had a hard time adjusting into society already their own.
So yes I can see a similarity of the refugees resettlement: dump them off in a ghetto like Bronx and hope they could figure their way around and fend for themselves. I was in the Bronx once myself visiting a friend who chose to work with the black youth there. I think he is still living there far as I know.
I was fortunate to have come to America in fall of 1976. A church group from Kalona Iowa sponsor around 4 families to that rural (out in the country side) community. A few years later I was placed in a foster home on a farm with pigs and cows. I helped with chores and pick apples. I attended private christian school paid for by the churches that supported the school. Grew up without having a television in the home. Had a lot of fun with the youth from the church I regularly attended. One summer a bunch of youth from different churches in that area went to northern Minnesota to teach bible school, I was one of them. we had a lots of fun in scarying girls of bears roaming around in the woods and coming to the cabin.
made friends with pretty girls (students). I even had a Mormon girl had a crush on me.
Now I think refugees would have fair better if they were placed in a smaller cities and had the help from good Christian organizations to hold their hands until they learn to walk again in a strange land.
The blessed man!
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