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Becoming American

Follows a Southeast Asian Hmong family during a nine-month period as they travel from a refugee camp in Thailand to Seattle. Records their months of intense culture shock, prejudice, and gradual adaptation to their new American home.

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  • "Odyssey of a refugee family"
  • "Odyssey of a refugee family"@en
  • "Odessey of a refugee family"@en

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  • "Follows a Southeast Asian Hmong family during a nine-month period as they travel from a refugee camp in Thailand to Seattle. Records their months of intense culture shock, prejudice, and gradual adaptation to their new American home."@en
  • "Follows a Southeast Asian Hmong family during a nine-month period as they travel from a refugee camp in Thailand to Seattle. Records their months of intense culture shock, prejudice, and gradual adaptation to their new American home."
  • "This segment from the program Non-fiction television documents the adaptation of a Hmong refugee family from northern Laos to life in America, where everything is culturally alien and everyone is a stranger. Incorporates archival footage of the family's heritage into poignant views of the daily encounters that the members have with foreign obstacles."@en
  • "Follows a Hmong refugee family from northern Laos awaiting resettlement in a remote refugee camp in northern Thailand, from the time its members learn of their acceptance as immigrants, to the time they are settled in Seattle, Wash."@en
  • "Follows a Hmong refugee family from northern Laos awaiting resettlement in a remote refugee camp in northern Thailand, from the time its members learn of their acceptance as immigrants, to the time they are settled in Seattle, Wash."
  • "Documents the adaptation of a Hmong refugee family from northern Laos to life in America, where everything is culturally alien and everyone is a stranger."@en
  • "Documentary film traces the journey of one Laotian Hmong family from a refugee camp in Thailand to Seattle, Wash. Shows the problems of changing from an agrarian to a contemporary urban life and the courage of the Hmong people in this resettlement process."
  • "Documents the adaptation of a Hmong refugee family from northern Laos to life in America, where everything is culturally alien and everyone is a stranger. Incorporates archival footage of the family's heritage into poignant views of the daily encounters that the members have with foreign obstacles."
  • "Documents the adaptation of a Hmong refugee family from northern Laos to life in America, where everything is culturally alien and everyone is a stranger. Incorporates archival footage of the family's heritage into poignant views of the daily encounters that the members have with foreign obstacles."@en
  • "Follows a Hmong refugee family from northern Laos awaiting resettlement in a refugee camp in northern Thailand, from the time they learn of their acceptance as immigrants, to the time they are settled in Seattle, Wash."@en
  • "Hang Sou and his family, preliterate tribal farmers, await resettlement in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing their war-consumed native Laos. Their odyssey is recorded as they travel to and resettle in the United States."@en
  • "After living for six years amidst the hardships of a refugee camp in northern Thailand, a Hmong family from highland Laos, informed of their acceptance as immigrants to the U.S., begin preparations for a long journey to an alien land. This film follows the family on their arduous odyssey to a new home in Seattle, Washington and records their intense culture shock as they resettle."
  • "Documents the adaptation of a Hmong refugee family from northern Laos to life in America."@en

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  • "Nonfiction films"@en
  • "Nonfiction films"
  • "Documentary films"@en
  • "Documentary films"
  • "Internet videos"@en
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Feature films"
  • "Documentary television programs"

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  • "Becoming American"@en
  • "Becoming American"
  • "Becoming American a film"@en
  • "Becoming American the odyssey of a refugee family"@en

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