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Leaving the United States Time 0:02:43 Transcript My parents disowned us because we were leaving the country, my father told my husband to pull up his pants and be a man. So, that was hard. And leaving behind all my friends in my town, um, my high school, my, everything that I was familiar with. It …
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Americans as Non-Immigrants - Bruce Bolin …
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Time 0:03:48 Transcript When I lived in Niamey, my parents’ house was like a busy bird nest. Everybody was there. Now when I go home, there’s only one person in the nest. My mother is by herself. Sometimes I go to visit – I tell people I am going home. But when I am coming back to Canada, I tell …
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Life in Canada Time 0:00:47 Transcript Otherwise I think everything was at least as good in Canada. For me I was almost like a non-immigrant in many respects. As a child I visited Canada so I knew it was right across the border. Even when my grandmother gave me the money to buy a car, I shopped …
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Life in Canada Time 0:00:51 Transcript Emily Burton (EB): So do you see yourself as an immigrant? Tom Corcoran (TC): I see myself as belonging here as opposed to there. I don’t know what that means. Do I see myself as an immigrant? No. I never felt like an immigrant. EB: Now why do you think that …
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Time 0:03:37 Transcript One day, my daughter came home and asked me the question, dad, why do some of the students in my school call me ‘Paki’. My reply was ‘it is not a polite word’ and I will have a visit with your school principal. Both my wife and I were born in Uganda but of Indian origin, we …
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Time 0:03:38 Transcript It was June when I arrived at the Moncton Airport. It was enough for me to be confused. It was too cold. For my life time it should be hot in June, but it wasn’t. Wherever I went after landing, I experienced a lot of different things. Sometimes they looked like strange. For …
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Time 0:04:19 Transcript January 10th, 2010, almost midnight, a family of 5 people arriving to Moncton, New Brunswick, and after the airport main door open… a lot of snow, … a dark and windy day, and maybe because of the stress of the trip I felt that night was the coldest night in my whole life… my …