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When I was at FT Lewis from & #39;92-& #39;98 I used to spend some time with the local Thai and Cambodian immigrant communities. The Thais because I was working on my language skills and there& #39;s no more pleasant way to do this than hang out in restaurants and have conversations with...
..people, and the Khmers because of a teammate I had who was Cambodian, former Khmer Rouge child soldier, who maintained contacts in that community and liked having someone along to watch his back because a lot of the 2nd generation Khmer were gang members. This was a problem...
..in Tacoma, WA, at the time. Not sure what it& #39;s like now. Anyway, I found the 1st generation immigrants to be like most 1st gen immigrants I& #39;ve met, incredibly industrious and proud of their new country. Their number one concern always seemed to be the same thing, their kids...
..which is concern I find very endearing as it& #39;s a concern I shared as a parent. I& #39;m not writing this to be Major Woke or to get some likes, I& #39;m writing this because these are observations I made for myself based on first-person perspective and experiential learning...
..and it jibes with my experience on the US-Mexico border in 1995, that the vast majority of immigrants are people coming here to work hard and make a home in which to raise kids and, as such, should be welcomed and made to feel at home. That immigrants are largely value added...
