Peter, the lost boy

Lost boys of Sudan are 27,000 boys of Dinka who were displaced during Civil War. After they were displaced and migrated to Kenya, they live in refugee camps in Kenya for their whole life. They had lost their parents, homeless, lost education, no food, water or shelter and they had to new surviving skills. International Rescue Committee help the refugees to resettle in U.S. Some churches helped them by charity and the refugee thought America as a heaven. However, they go through lots of difficulties living and they realize that there isn't any heaven in Earth. The DVD that we saw was about lost boys and particularly about Peter and Santino. They both go through hard times with money, racism and culture shock.

Even people say that they have to care for people and people should be equally treated, to Peter it wasn't. People treated him differently. When he signed up for work in the supermarket, his boss told him to work outdoor under the sun because he is black and he lived in hot places so, the boss thought that "black" will work better under the sun than "white" does. School counselor has to care about students and try to block racism. However, when he went to school and signed up for education, even his counselor saw Peter as dumb. Counselor thought that he cannot speak English well and because he was a refugee, he had lack of education. The counselor also thought him just 'pity' and he didn't give Peter chance to talk to him and just decide his class. Also when Peter was about to graduate, the counselor talked to him and told him to go to the community college because the counselor thought he is not good at studying. However, Peter got all high grades and he was able to go to the big universities. Peter also wrote about him and showed to the counselor but he just acted like he was sorry for him but he wasn't. Not only this, when Peter tried to hang around with white people, they treated him like friends but actually they are just looking like caring for him because they feel pity for him. Peter also faced another problem, which is money. He had to pay for school, house rent and use money for his own. However, his relatives in Kenya refugee camps kept asking for money because they thought that Peter would live better than them in America. Another problem was that Peter thought that he was different from others and he is not suitable to fit into the group. He grew up alone without parents and he didn't have money. He also didn't get proper education. So, he thought that everyone is better than him and everyone is rich. He suddenly lost his self-esteem and he felt poor and weak.

These conflict and difficulties lead Peter to culture shock. Peter came from Kenya refugee camps which was uncivilized and he is trying to fit into civilized place, America. So, he felt a big difference between himself and others around him. For him, everything was different like food, transport, money usage, friendship and laws. He also thought that people will take care of him when he is in U.S but no one helped him and he really needed care. So, he tried to be one of the people but the "white" rejected him being with them.