Gamera3000
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I'm honestly curious, because you've had the chance to know people in these groups as people. What do you think about us taking in refugees, and refugees in general and what to you think about gay rights?
Refugees: About half the male Muslim refugees were animals and the other half were completely cool. I believe the difference between the two was education. The one who spoke multiple languages and had more varied experience were okay with women's rights and were able to adapt to our culture. The ones who were animals would actively pretend to have Western values, so it was hard to tell there was a problem at first. But I noticed that the other male refugees would find them distasteful. The African Christians (we had a lot of them because Christians are persecuted in many African countries) and Asian Hindus and Christians (also religiously/culturally persecuted) were offended at some of the Muslim men treating women "like dogs" and would not let their kids play together and they wouldn't be around them if they could help it.
Another problem with refugees is that they do not get PTSD counseling. PTSD is a more Western problem, but the Africans seemed to have it as well. The Africans, at least from Ethiopian and Kenya areas, did sometimes have PTSD from being in Walking Dead-type war zones, like horrific, horrific stuff. One of the Iraqi men also had strong PTSD from being forced to participate in sexual violence. He eventually married an Asian over here and they had a family, so he was a strange success story. Another of our guys with it never got any better and eventually killed a couple people at his former workplace. People with Eastern cultures have a spiritual thing that happens instead of PTSD, I guess, which I saw a couple of times. The person can look nuts in one way or another- like they might have visions or fits? They have to have the support of their community and eventually whatever is happening to them can lessen. It's not so much something our medicine can help with, but if we had a social worker from within each community to deal specifically with that, that would be helpful.
Gay rights: I'm not really sure what you're asking. Like what do I think about civil rights? Socially, my opinion is that people should strive to keep their business to themselves, you know, unless they need help or something. You can't ask people to call you by a strange pronoun or whatever. I don't like it when people call me by a nickname, but it's unreasonable for me to get offended if they do. But of course people have the right to partner up with whoever they want, as long as that person is over 18 and consenting. My gay friends have all been no different than me. I feel sorry for them that they have less options for having children. I'm happy that they now have equal marriage options. I have not met many true transgender people and those I have met (a couple) were completely regular people, living regular lives. These queer identity young people- I can't say I am too into that. I think that's stupid. I also think it's stupid when people play at being gay because it's trendy or they're figuring themselves out. That's pretty disrespectful to people who really are gay and don't get to go back to the mainstream when it's convenient.