The Importance Of Living In A Refugee Camp

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Growing up in a refugee camp and having to deal with the dramatic changes of moving as a child had a greatly impacted my life. These experiences have influenced me to become who I am today. I used to believe that I was at a disadvantage by being born in a refugee camp, but I later grew up to appreciate this because I learned valuable skills from the experience. I learned to adapt to different situations cultures and I learned to respect people who were different from me. In 2000 I was born at a refugee camp in Kenya, My parents had just escaped the Somali Civil War where they were greatly persecuted, mainly because they were a minority who were ethnically not Somali. I spent the first seven years of my life in a refugee camp where I was …show more content…

There was a sense of self segregation at the camp where different cultures were afraid to interact with other people.This was probably due to certain prejudices they had against each other, these prejudices came from ignorance and the unwillingness to learn about other people. As I got older I looked back at the camp and learned one of the most treasured lessons I have ever learned and experienced, I learned that most of the communities at the camp were blind. They clearly saw that they all looked physically different, came from different parts of Africa, spoke different languages and prayed differently, but what what was blurred to them was what brought them all in the same camp in the first place. They did not seem to come together realizing and appreciating eachothers struggles. Yes they all had different faces and cultures but the Sudanese people in the camp had gone through a civil war just as as the Somali people in the camp, and the somali people had gone through a famine just as the Rwandan people had, and the Rwandan People had gone through persecution just as my family had. From a young age I was taught to be tolerant of other by “ Putting myself in someone else's shoes” but after growing up and looking back at my childhood in the Kenyan

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