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I was put off initially by the folkloric descriptions, but as I got deeper into the book, I understood that this was meant to present the idyllic before to the dystopic after. As a former Romanian refugee, I saw some things that matched my family's experiences and others that were more horrifying.
A racist I know recently told me that refugees should just toughen up and fight injustice in their countries instead of coming to his country (as if white people in North America can say they legitimat ...more
A racist I know recently told me that refugees should just toughen up and fight injustice in their countries instead of coming to his country (as if white people in North America can say they legitimat ...more
Oct 14, 2012
Ruth
marked it as to-read
