Have you met any Refugee's

[margomeoz]

If so have you became friends with them?

[poison_ivys_pen]

Yes, my cousins wife she is a Vietnamese Refugee but has spent the majority of her life in Australia, she's lovely and as are her family.

[mugssy65]

Yes but it was a long time ago in high school, she too was Vietnamese.

[mugssy65]

Why do you ask? Have you not?

[love*today]

My good mates girlfriend worked with them and helpedto get them settled into our way of life. She would occasionally bring them into my work for a quick chat.
They all seemed nice.

[lakeland27]

yes. and they gave me kudo's .

my son made friends with a Sudanese boy, and when i visited the house there was a fridge and a washing machine still in the packaging. they didn't seem to know what they were (it was 2007)  I was brought in and sat down with the father, and his wife wheeled in a trolley with tea, coffee coke and a few other drinks (i had the tea) it was rather formal, but they were nice people. a few weeks later the boy came to my sons birthday with a toy , a roll of giftwrapping paper and a card and envelope. i assume the parents had been advised what to take to a 'australian party' but nobody had told them to wrap the gift or write in the card.

[**meep**]

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@margomeoz wrote:

If so have you became friends with them?

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my mother is a refugee (we're friends, most of the time)

at one stage, most of my friends were refugees. they were the only ones i knew here in Australia.  we attended ESL classes together. 

A couple of my work colleagues, who later became my friends, were also refugees.

I assume most  have met a refugee without realising it.  how do you tell?

[cherry*135]

: Have you met any Refugee's.. yes, most of us would  have, I think, as meep mentioned. Refugee's have been arriving in Australia for decades.. Czechoslovakia (as  it was called then) Bosnia and so on.

People you work with, people you study with.. yes, you become friends with them, just like you would become friends with anyone that is a non refugee.

[**meep**]

I'm sorry Margo but I find that question strange, funny even.   Refugees are are normal people, just from different countries.  

To me, its like asking, have you met somone from another planet and become friends with them.   Now, that would be worth asking IMO.

[cherry*135]

Also you become friends with people that you have similar interests with, similar sense of humour etc.. not because they are refugees or non refugees.