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Pretty much everything he told me about how selectively forgotten that the first people in Canada people had treated him when he was new to Canada, he was did not speak English or French. If you are not from now saying to all the new immigrants that were coming to the a First Nation Tribe, somewhere on your family tree, country after he did. you will see you are an immigrant to Canada. Rob and Was his hypocritical opinion being influenced by other I were both born and raised in Calgary, which is still people? I know he listened to the radio a lot but, as I was a seen as rare. My mom and dad left Hungary during the child at the time, I would have not paid attention to any fear Hungarian revolution. They actually did not meet until or hatred that might have come from it. When I became an they were living a house apart from one another in the adult, I realized that a lot of the people he was listening to were Calgary Beltline. people who appeared on Fox News and other conservative media outlets. Was his opinion also influenced by how he My dad told me some pretty awful stories of what it was like was brought up? Was it just part of the culture of the time? in Hungary, as soldiers came through towns and rounded up During the current refugee crisis, I noticed how poorly farm animals, and other belongings, during communism – Hungarians treated the refugees trying to come in or through since those things were shared across the community at a Hungary to other countries. Did they all have short-term whole. When you don’t have a lot to start, it made it worse memory loss of how many Hungarians fled to other countries when you were left with nothing. Eventually my dad was able back in the late ’50s? I did some research: after the Hungarian to leave Hungary and come to Canada, where he decided to Revolution in 1956, over 100,000 Hungarian refugees came be a farmer, in Kamloops, before moving to Calgary. to Canada. To put that into perspective, Calgary’s population My mom has departed some of her crazy stories of what was at 181,780 in 1956. How many other people in Canada it was like being poor, like going to the well every day for right now are doing the same thing – forgetting that at some water, and hoping a wasp’s nest had honey in it, since they point either they or their ancestors came to Canada as could not really afford sweets. My mom and my aunt came refugee or immigrant, struggling through the same hassles? out to Canada without my grandmother. They lived with a I see the comments on Facebook from people that I know close family friend who helped bring them out as part of the – straight or gay – commenting negatively on the Syrians refugee program. My grandmother finally was able to make it coming to Canada as refugees. As someone who is born in out from Hungary with the help of the Canadian Red Cross. Canada, to parents who left Hungary during its revolution, My aunt, grandmother and mom actually appeared on a do I comment on their personal timeline or do I bite my cover of the Calgary Herald back in the late ’50s.