Immigrants who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by making this journey, whereas refugees b…

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40, 50 years ago, Americans - the majority of Americans did not want to accept these Vietnamese refugees who they saw as completely foreign. Now ther…

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Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States.

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Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority writers ar…

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In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptan…

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People may be vaguely aware that there's suffering in Iraq and Afghanistan, but simply because the media are filled with American-centric versions, w…

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Immigrants, as troubling as they are to some people, are an integral part of what the American Dream is supposed to be. They're understandable to a c…

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I think all immigrants and refugees are preoccupied with memories to one degree or another. But again, this question of how much to remember and how …

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Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the n…

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