It's easy to forget the boat people under current open tourism.
When they came, most people were sympathetic but racist. Still racism is a couple orders of magnitude away from their experiences in their homeland. Like Syrian they were fleeing war and were so grateful to be here. I went to school with a couple and Fred worked with an engineer who had been a baby.
I wish governents that feel obliged to punish their citizenry by "re-education" would deport them to an accepting country instead and I hope Canada would be one of those accepting countries.
https://youtu.be/v4nKkqdnVCM
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I am glad for anybody who receives safe refuge in a good nation. Unfortunately, here in my community in the U.S., the experience of Vietnamese refugees in the '80s and '90s was mostly not at all like that video's warm conclusion. Ostracism, poverty, unemployment, three-way racial violence among black, white and Vietnamese high school students, and public scapegoating by one city council member against the refugees -- this was their reality here. As a journalist, I met some Vietnamese teens in community center. They were angry and hurt and unwilling to mix with whites, due to their experiences being denigrated by them. Things have improved in many ways here for them, partly because ending the trade embargo with Vietnam has opened our minds and because there are refugees from so many more countries are here.
ReplyDeleteThere were lots of people here as well who were hard hearted until they encountered them.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first visited Canada, specifically Ontario and Quebec, in 1989 I saw a place well versed in accepting refugees. Wide diversity was second nature in Toronto and Montreal. Louisville was still 98 percent U.S born black and white. Today, this community is about 12 percent international born and much more diverse among the rest as well.
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