(Would you want your children to grow up there too, or would you move somewhere else, if you could, and try to better your situation??)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_refugee_camps
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb/refugee/index.htm
2006-07-24 13:42:53 · 16 answers · asked by Baaad Dokhtar 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
I would hate it, I have done alot of research on Afghanistan and seen the refugee camps the Afghans have had to try and survive in when they fled the country for Pakistan, they are nothing more than sheets draped over poles, the weather can reach below -15 c too. The repatriation camps in Kabul are no better either. Couldn't think of anything worse. Visit RAWA.org or hazara.net and view the galleries.
2006-07-24 20:13:32 · answer #1 · answered by Rick 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
My old physics teacher in school (high school) was a depressed man and consumed his fair share of alcohol. He was a brilliant physicist, he could have become "something" in academia - rather than a washed out high school physics teacher and ever since his gf left him he became a shattered man. He was otherwise truly a kind and gentle soul, however his philosophy of life was. Life is s h i t (or a b i t c h), and then you die. This is what he repeatedly recited to us wide-eyed youths ;-).
SO what can we derive from this - life in a ref. camp is s h i t and then you die? Perhaps if he stopped drinking he could have become "something", maybe if you get the opportunity to leave the camp - life will change for you in a positive manner. Life is about risk and taking chances. Not everyones lot in life is the same/equal but that is not what we want on this earth. A succesful person is the one who tries to live it - regardless of the obstacles in front of him/her and regardless if he fails or succeeds there is only one way to find out...
2006-07-25 11:20:34 · answer #2 · answered by J F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have neer been inside a refugee camp, so my answer is unqualified, but I would want my children to grow up with a sense of 'comunity and belonging' and my thinking is that there is a sense of that in a camp, whereas where I live there is not so it may not be a bad thing
2006-07-24 20:50:41 · answer #3 · answered by DonnaDoop 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I grew up in a refugee camp, which I am happy I didn't, I'd probably strap a bomb to myself and take out the people who put me there.
2006-07-24 20:46:23 · answer #4 · answered by ceprn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Move. Refuges deserve better because of the governments inability to protect them. They are often fleeing war and civil unrest. I agree with protection of refugees, however, not those that are here for economic purposes.
2006-07-24 20:55:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thank you for the references, but I don't need them. Surely I would want to move to give my children a better life or at least a chance. Why do you ask? (if this is not too personal a question)
2006-07-24 20:48:13 · answer #6 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey let me request you a song..."You Don't Have To Live Like A Refugee!"
2006-07-24 20:47:51 · answer #7 · answered by tripledigit67 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't go to a country illegally if my life and those of my children depended on it. I would love and care for them too much to subject them to that.
What are you thinking?
2006-07-24 22:13:23 · answer #8 · answered by yars232c 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Better your situation yes, but not on the backs of a nation that welcomed you.
2006-07-24 20:59:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand & agree with what you say however we are a small island & cannot keep on taking people in.I am not a racist that applies to anyone.
2006-07-27 10:00:32 · answer #10 · answered by Ollie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋