How should you treat immigrants or refugees in a way which they will feel is the best way to be treated? I mean here's a bit of a Ted Talk from a real life example, "Kindhearted people who felt sorry for me offered to pay rent or buy me a meal or a suit for my new interview. It just made me feel more isolated and incapable. It wasn't until I met Miss Sarah, a Southern Baptist who took me in at my lowest and gave me a job, that I started to believe in myself."(05:36, Mufleh). And here's a bit from All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir, “But in eleven years, Shaukat Riaz never stopped judging me. After realizing that I spoke Punjabi with Noor and fed her Pakistani food, he stopped leaving her with me. He hated my presence in her life. Going to her home would have only created trouble for her.”(page 324). You see this all is very complicated, with the Ted Talk she was a refugee who received support with everything in her day to day life that caused her to feel worthless, but when she was given a job then did she feel hope. Basically what I get from that is you should help them get on their feet and nothing else, no walking along the side making decisions telling them what to do. Now when you look at the excerpt from All My Rage you get a more complicated scenario, Misbah acting like a mother to Noor, Noor's Uncle Shaukat who doesn't want Noor to have Pakistani culture but rather be Americanized like he was when he spent his life learning in America all causing him to dislike Misbah, and Noor who likes being with Misbah and doing things together(these are all mentioned somewhere else in the book).
This here differs from the Ted Talk as it's not a matter of the level of help but rather how to help. You see Noor doesn’t know English when she first arrives and everyone I mentioned in the book is from Pakistan so basically Misbah is just a normal baby sitter. Alright you can just about that whole mess the point I was trying to get to is whether or not to treat them as an American or as a person of wherever they're from. This all ties into other matters like filial piety they might have causing them to feel guilt for being treated as an American and not as a person of wherever they're from and that they're betraying their ancestors or what not. Or on the other hand treating them as a person of wherever they're from could cause them to not fit in and be rejected by those around them making life more difficult. To tell the truth there's no one solution for every person. So in the case of the character/characters in your book, how should you treat immigrants or refugees in a way which they will feel is the best way to be treated?
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