If you think ‘refugee’ is not a dignified term, why reserve it for ‘foreign’ evacuees?
I think of evacuees as people who temporarily had to leave home, refugees as people without a home. Tell me I am wrong.
Most of us can’t keep away from the news, whether it’s via television, newspaper or the internet. We are heartbroken by what has happened but sometimes the media does a horrible job at conveying what’s going on for the rest of us who are there. One thing every media outlet continue to do is address the citizens of New Orleans as refugees. They are NOT refugees, they are evacuees! Please stop making them sound like they are fleeing from Sudan or running from Castro. They are Americans like the rest of us, please don’t take the only thing they may have left; their dignity!
If you think ‘refugee’ is not a dignified term, why reserve it for ‘foreign’ evacuees?
I think of evacuees as people who temporarily had to leave home, refugees as people without a home. Tell me I am wrong.
Most of us can’t keep away from the news, whether it’s via television, newspaper or the internet. We are heartbroken by what has happened but sometimes the media does a horrible job at conveying what’s going on for the rest of us who are there. One thing every media outlet continue to do is address the citizens of New Orleans as refugees. They are NOT refugees, they are evacuees! Please stop making them sound like they are fleeing from Sudan or running from Castro. They are Americans like the rest of us, please don’t take the only thing they may have left; their dignity!
You are right they are not refugees, they are Homeless, homeless and homeless.