The Lost Boys

In class this week we watched a movie called Lost Boys. They were a group of refugees from Sudan and they were forced to leave because of the war. Too many of them were getting killed right in the open. Once they moved to the US they could see how different it is from Sudan and their camp in Kakuma. After a while they started seeing how things work in the US. One thing they noticed is that people tend to walk by themselves. People don't walk up to each other and ask what's wrong even if people are crying. The main lesson they remember is that culture is everything. They have to remember that in a new country and being in new cultures they have too maintain their own culture. One thing they maintain is how they eat. They are not ashamed to use their hands when eating anything. The Lost Boys made sure to get the word out about the war in Sudan so they would make a walk to get people informed.

One thing I have learned from this movie is that you should always be thankful for the little things you have. When I looked at all the things they had you could see they really had nothing. They didn't even have shoes or nice clothes and that just made me realize that even if we have "little" things and to them that would seem like so much. One thing I also noticed is that the older generations didn't care about changing their appearance or their values while the younger generations change their looks and how they acted and completely forgot about their culture. In the end you can see that they still worked to support themselves in the US and to support their family in Sudan to try to get them out of there.