The Ethiopian Experience in America

Download or read book The Ethiopian Experience in America written by Kebede Haile and published by Allwrite Advertising & Pub. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite publicly stated commitments to peace made by world leaders, many countries continue to violate people's rights. Due to this fact, there are displaced people who have been forced to leave their homes to look for peace and safety outside their countries of birth. They seek refuge to escape from political persecution, famine, drought, civil war, racial, and ethnic discrimination in their homeland. All aspire to gain full access to social, political, and religious freedom.Among those are the Ethiopian refugees who fled Ethiopia following the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. At that time, the media brought the horrible reality of their desperate situation to the world's attention. The images of human misery, suffering, and the struggle for freedom and survival were on the front pages of the world news print media.The intention of this book is to enlighten Ethiopian refugees and others about the Ethiopians life experience in America. It also intends to address questions such as: Why did so many Ethiopians have to leave their country? How did they manage to land in the U.S.? What factors prompted some of them to return to their country? Readers will be informed about the hardships and courage of the Ethiopian refugees who have come to America to begin a new life. Finally, it presents examples of the Ethiopian community's successes, as well as failures in the U.S.This book will be useful to all who aspire to come to the U.S. and will help orient them in advance to facilitate assimilation into the American social environments and thus to establish the future generations of Ethiopian-Americans.