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...job had propelled her into becoming an international child--the embodiment of the vision of his work, as well as of other international civil servants.
"We came to the United States with two suitcases. I was only two", recalled 21-year-old Dounia. One of her earliest impressions of the United States was seeing people of different skin colours. "In our country we had seen dark-skin and black people, but we had never seen Asians or whites. It was a culture shock", she said. "We came from a small country where everyone knew each other. Here there are so many people--some would approach us with a humble tone; others would approach us with a very nasty tone. We weren't used to that."
Dounia's younger brother, Seif, was born in Djibouti as well, and the youngest, Anas, in New York City. Typical of international children, they always have an unconventional answer to the basic question, "Where were you born?", and to the next natural question, "Why were you born there?" However, the fundamental and sometimes lifelong question they often ask themselves is, "Outside of my immediate family and those families like mine,...
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