Facts About The Refugees
The city in Maine that Somalian Refugees came to.
What is Lewiston?
The communication barrier.
What is different languages?
Public schools and school sports forced people to do this in order to get good grades in group work and win team sports.
What is work together?
Fill In The Blank: The Somali Refugees in Lewiston paved the way for more ______.
What is refugees?
The Reason Somalian people left Somalia.
What is civil war?
Fill In The Blank: The tension between the incoming Somali Refugees and the other citizens of Lewiston led people to deface Somali businesses, stores, and even school bathrooms. In one bathroom one student wrote, "go back to _____".
What is Africa?
Fill In The Blank: After the open letter from the former mayor, the press made the town out to be racist, which created a surge of ____ for the refugees.
What is support?
True or False: Incoming refugees didn't buy any goods or groceries and didn't contribute to the community by opening their own businesses.
What is False?
True or False: There was a lot of unemployment and vacancy in Lewiston before the Somali Refugees came.
What is True?
Schools had to move money around to afford this because of the communication barriers.
What is hire more language teachers? (and pay for more language emersion programs)
The sport that brought Somali People and multi-generations of Mainers together.
What is Soccer?
The result when multiple different races/ethnicities come to live in the same community. (think in general terms)
What is a Diverse Community?
Somali boys who lost their families fleeing conflict always had this to kick around in their spare time.
What is a soccer ball?
Fill In The Blank: The people of Lewiston thought that the Somalian Refugees got more resources and extra benefits than them, which created _____ between the two communities that had not come together yet.
What is tension?
True or False: The 2015 soccer state championship game that Lewiston's high school soccer team was in has more spectators than the 2015 American Football state championship that Lewiston high school was also in.
What is True?
The product of an influx of younger people to a city. (for this one think in terms of the production of goods and jobs)
What is Able-Bodied Workers?
The Reason Somalian people came to Maine and left the other relocation sites they had been at before, such as sites in the outskirts of Atlanta.
What is safety, security, good schools, space for big families, and cheap housing?
What the former Mayor of Lewiston, Laurier T. Raymond Jr., wrote in his letter to the growing Somalian community about them coming.
What is he told them to stop coming and tell their friends and family to stop coming?
True or False: The state championship that Lewiston's high school soccer team won in 2015 was not their first soccer state championship.
What is False?
What is sharing culture?