For this blog, I have decided to write about acceptance. This is also related to the movie Lost Boys of Sudan. I feel like although Americans are compassionate in ways, we are not accepting. In the movie, people wanted to know the stories of the lost boys, but they did not want to know beyond hearing. In several incidences, the lost boys were subject to racial prejudice from the people trying to "help" them! The administrator who wouldnt let Peter take the ACT because he wasnt "ready." The woman who tried initially to help the Sudanese boys, but as soon as she learned that they had been threatened with guns, backed off. And the most noticeable was the girl who interviewed Peter. Although she seemed to care, she really only wanted a story. She didnt really care that he had been threatened at gun point, or that he had been shot at.

Acceptance, in the US, is something that doesnt come easily. People are too quick to stereotype and judge. I think the only way for Americans to progress in the world is to realize that most immigrants have amazing survival stories and they have fought hand and tooth for the "American Dream."