Karen Culture American Refugees

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The Karen Culture, through the eyes of a Refugee
Michael F. DeFrancesco

Cultural Anthropology
Professor Johnson
Abstract
The Karen people have become refugees due to the Burmese civil war, resulting with the people having no home country and Burma becoming Myanmar. Several of the refugees went to Thailand’s refugee camp, where they had no interaction with people outside of their camp. They were then given asylum by several countries, the United States being one of them. They live in communities with other Karen refugees, creating small pockets of their culture throughout the United States. The conditions that they experienced and currently experience is a point for cultural curiosity, since they were intentionally secluded from other groups of people when moving from one country to the next. This could have led for the culture to stay the same since they were separate from interaction with other cultures, or it could have changed due to lack of interaction with others and the change …show more content…
This is a tragedy due to the civil war that displaced this people and caused the change to the country. These refugees were then taken in by the country of Thailand, where they had no interaction with anyone from outside the refugee camp they were placed in unless it was the rationing of food. Several years passed since when they were first placed in the camp, and that is when the United States started giving asylum to these refugees. Several more years had passed since then, and the refugees had formed tight-knit communities across the U.S. Even though such established communities exist throughout the country, there is still little widely known about their culture now and from where it originated. To better understand the culture, an interview would be needed. This of course would occur after research to create baseline questions for the
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