Boat People

By Jack W Bernstein and Jan Benham

This book is not meant to demean, degrade, deride or any other “de” you can imagine. Instead, it’s meant to elicit a smile or maybe even a laugh. From time to time, it’s good to lighten up even about something as serious as the immigrants who have chosen America as their new country. Perhaps, if we can find humor in their attempts to use American expressions (idioms), we can become more light-hearted about the challenges they face in the process of adapting to a new language and customs in their chosen country. Of course, this book is not intended to generalize about the totality of American immigrants but only to the people I’ve presented here.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664140684

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Rev. date: 11/05/2020

BOAT

PEOPLE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS A BOAT PERSON?

BECOMING AMERICANIZED

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ALWAYS RESPECTFUL

THE TEMPTATION TO CORRECT

SOME OBSERVATIONS

JOIN THE FUN

MY OBSERVATIONS

INTERVIEWS

AMIRA’S STORY

MARION’S STORY

ALBERT SHOHET ’S STORY told BY AMIRA

LIST OF IDIOMS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

INTRODUCTION

This book is not meant to demean, degrade, deride or any other de you can imagine. Instead, it’s meant to elicit a smile or maybe even a laugh. From time to time, it’s good to lighten up even about something as serious as the immigrants who have chosen America as their new country. Perhaps, if we can find humor in their attempts to use American expressions (idioms), we can become more light-hearted