The Lost Boys of Sudan and Kenya

This picture of Santino only shows you little of this man's struggle. His story could fill books and bring tears to many but, he continues to work for better conditions for himself and his village. We may never understand the way this man feels and we may never be able to feel the weight that he carries on his back but, we can try to help him and his village. Santino's story, as well as others like him, begins almost at birth when his village is attacked. His father and mother would be dead before he was 6years old. So by the time the attack happened he was already alone trying to survive. He ran and survived and stayed at a refugee camp. Their where 2 refugee camps, Sudan and Kenya, where those who survived would live together and work to make their lives easier. After some time these refugees, given the name lost boys, would be given the oppertunity to move to America where they would be helped for the first few months to allow them to get assimulated. Santino was one of those that was lucky enough to get this oppertunity and left his village in order to help his village by providing support and going back one day. Although he had good intentions his mind was swayed to becoming lazy. While assimulating to American culture he started to forget his purpose and became selfcentered. Because things where so easy in America work was something he had to do less of to get a reward. This unfortunatly happened to many of the Kenyans and Sudans. But they would remember what they where there for. They continued to keep their culture and continued to help their villages, hoping that one day they could return or have their friends come to them. When one trys to understand another culture they may be blind to things that may seem oblivous to us but unclear to them. One example of this is when Santino purchases a car and drives it to the dmv fails to get his license and drives the car back home. To us this would be rediculous to him it is unclear. To most of us other culture may be weird but they may just be unclear. For instance to have a list of items for a store is normal but, to a culture like Russia it would be considered incompitant to have a list because you can't remember what you went to the store for. All in all the many things that are so normal for us is strange to others and should be looked at for another perspective before proclaiming that others are strange for the things they do or don't do.