vespergirl
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My parents escaped what used to be part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now Croatia) in the early 1960s. When my mother''s family escaped to Italy via sailboat, their boat was shot at by soldiers, and it''s a miracle they escaped alive. Because their parents weren''t beaurocrats living in the capital, but peasants living on islands off the coast, they had barely adequate food rations and horrible health care. Education was free, and one could go to college as well, but my family members who had legal and medical degrees could not practice in the US once they came here because the degrees were not respected in the US.Date: 3/16/2009 1:58:23 PM
Author: zhuzhu
vespergirl
Maybe if you provide more detailed information on how your parents had terrible health care, barely enough food to survive and had to escape the country under penalty of death, or rather, just the name of that particular country, we can have better data to go by?
Also, my sister-in-law immigrated here from Poland in the early 90s, right after Communism collapsed in that country. Again, she had two masters degrees when she arrived (finance and economics), and spoke perfect English, but couldn''t find a job better than a secretary once she got here. She said that even though her parents had respected jobs in Krakow (high school principal and factory manager) their food rations were awful, there was never enough to eat, they stood in the famous bread lines, and decent health care could only be found in the cities - peasants were out of luck (kind of like poor people here don''t get health care as good as rich people have - it wasn''t any different in a communist or socialist country).