What Is a "Refugee"? The Jews from Morocco versus the Palestinians from Israel

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5. You'd be surprised at the number of refugees who arrived here from Eastern Europe

after WWII many of whom were ethnic Germans chased out of the homes they had been born in.

And then there were the refugees from Eastern Europe who would have been considered citizens say in Poland or Ukraine or another Eastern European country but for being expelled or running away to avoid Communism.

And then there were the refugees who fled to South America from Europe. And refugees who fled from Central America in the 1980s.

I'm just thinking of the examples of waves of immigrants that I have personally known in my lifetime. This includes of course Jews who survived or escaped the Holocaust including many who came here or went to South America or Israel.

We are a world with many refugees.

Jewish refugees after WWII were very common.

Refugees are everywhere. In my family we have refugees from various parts of the world. That's just in my family.

One set of refugees is not more privileged than another in my view. They all try to find homes and to be accepted in the country they move to. It takes a while for them to realize and accept the fact that they and their children will probably never go back to the country they called "home."

If Americans studied their family histories, they would discover to their shock in many cases quite a number of refugees -- especially from religious persecution. That is very true in my family.