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fandomsecrets2012-07-27 06:57 pm
[ SECRET POST #2033 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2033 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Mortal Kombat]
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[The Young and the Restless]
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[Firefly, Joss Whedon; Sherlock BBC, Steven Moffat]
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[not really porny but implied underage sexual stuff; photomanip; snape/hermione]
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13. [SPOILER WARNING for Pokemon Black/White]

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14. [SPOILER WARNING for Kurau: Phantom Memory]

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[Kono Naka ni Hikari, Imouto ga Iru!]
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[Eden Lake]
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Re: Native languages
(Anonymous) 2012-07-28 12:30 am (UTC)(link)Hmong people come from Laos, but most of the Hmong people are either living in Thailand or the USA now. My parents came here as refugees escaping from the results of the Vietnam war.
A bit funny that we are discussing native languages here today, because yesterday, after my mom had a bit of a brain fart and thought she lost my brother's Social Security Card and she asked me to help her find it, I was looking through my parents' old paperwork and I came across a lot of their immigration papers. It was really humbling to see it all. I almost broke down into tears when I found, inside my dad's flight ticket, an "IN CASE OF EMERGENCY" note typed in English, Hmong, and Thai (the Hmong people have to flee out of Laos into Thailand and seek refuge there before they can find a way to come to the US) that was worded along the lines of, "Hello, my name is ________. I am an Indochinese refugee and I do not speak English. My sponsor has not arrived to pick me up. If you may please help me by calling the number below and ask for (a person's name I don't remember), it will help me tremendously." I'm sure there was more to it, but I can't remember it too well. I just thought of my dad as a young nineteen year old boy with his sixteen year old sister, both of whom did not speak a word of English, looking around the airport, terrified that their uncle had not made it to the airport, and having to hand over this note to strangers. It really broke my heart to think that before leaving Thailand, my dad was most likely told what that note was for.
Sorry for the tl;dr story. I totally didn't mean to do it. ._.
Re: Native languages
(Anonymous) 2012-07-28 12:34 am (UTC)(link)no, that was actually very sweet (bittersweet?) and interesting
Re: Native languages
(Anonymous) 2012-07-28 02:25 am (UTC)(link)It's a very touching story, thanks for sharing your family's past with us :) The trouble immigrants have to go through are unimaginable to most people who've always lived in the same country without ever needing to leave their entire lives behind.