An Afghan family reunion years in the making
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- Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2024
- Six years ago correspondent Steve Hartman first met Baset Azizi, a musician from Afghanistan, who fled to the U.S. as a teenager. Since then, Azizi has interned on Capitol Hill, and graduated from college with honors. All that time, his family was back in Afghanistan, until they fled following the fall of Kabul. Finally, just a few weeks ago, Azizi's family arrived in the U.S. for an emotional reunion.
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What a reunion! Congratulations to the Baset Azizi family. The USA is lucky to have such a wonderful family become part of our country.
His family's weeping for joy said it all. I am so happy for them. Welcome to America. :)
Awesome that he was able to come to the USA. That his family was able to join him years later. Awesome reunion.
I cried with him.
This is very touching. This story reminds me to strive to improve the quality of my life through hard work.
Wow, this brought happy tears to my eyes. Great story of courage, strength, determination and most of all love.
Congratulations on all your hard work to graduate with 3 degrees but best of all to have your family be there to share it with you. Welcome to the United States dear family. I'm very happy for all of you to finally be together in the land of the free and home of the brave.
What a powerful reunion and a beautiful family!
Such a beautiful cry. Welcome to America!
What an awesome story....congratulations young man and best of luck on all of your future endeavors.
I'm not crying you are
Wonderful story!
Beautiful story
"It was a dream to see my son, before dying."
Imagine if the world were a place where we invested as much time and effort into bringing families together and protecting human rights as we did grinding for money, power, and political sway...
Great story, congratulations to Baset and his family..
Congratulations!! This is an awesome reunion 🎈🍾🎉🎊🎈
Wooo so proud of you chashman tan roshan
3 degrees ! Wow. He’s not a slacker.
Now that is America!
This is truly an American story. Coming from another land in turmoil and achieving your dreams here. That's what this country should be and is all about. The GOP would like to have that stop, very sad. They lost the very meaning of America with their current outlook on things. 🇺🇸
I'm the best trumpet player in Afghanistan.... because there are only two trumpet players in Afghanistan (in this beloved land of mine that is now ruled by Bronze Age tribesmen, with Bronze Age understanding of the world)... THAT must be one of the most witty lines a 16 year-old could or would ever make, to make sure a professional musician from the West takes him under his wing, so he, the teen, could develop his musical talents!
Wow, what an Amazing young man 🏅🥇🥇🏆,, 3 Degrees-- who does that???? congrats to & GOD bless you & ur family!!!!👨🎓
Haley is energized nmatic
If you didn't at least think about crying ... Well done on both counts. Six yrs separated.
What an excellent peace of American political theatre--just makes me wanna be a good ol' patriot boi.
You can always tell how much an Afgan family wants to be assimilated, their comfort level with this, by the dress of their women. No head scarves, Western dress...to me, says we are here, and it's okay.
And this is NOT a question of native, or even religious, dress, but a much deeper connection...or lack there of...
Before I get a lot of flack for this, both sides of my grandparents, were Russian immigrants. Both had 7 children, who would navigate life in America, for them, as best they could.
But neither side spoke English better than extremely poorly, clinging to small immigrant communities, even after decades.
Their children grew up and left. Had lives, as children do. But my grandparents would cling to places, people, and shops that spoke Russian. There was no Macys, or Woolworths, for them. Never heard modern music, a radio, saw newspapers, (though there was a tiny Russian community newsletter), books, TV, etc when my parents and siblings...and me.. dutifully visited regularly.
The many doors of options in America, would never open for them... though English was not just encouraged, but demanded, at home. THEIR children would be Americans, they said. For them, it never happened.
My grandmothers would always be babuskas, until they died. We would never have an actual conversation, (as my parents never taught me Russian)...though I loved them dearly. Years later, I would wish.. there had been SO MUCH they could have told me, IF ONLY...I was simply too young, to know what to ask.
They, themselves, would cling to an identity now 50 yrs out of date, even in Russia.
For them, that spelled isolation, a time warp, no longer relevant. As a child, that was sort of quaint. They were already very old when I met them. To me, that was normal, what grandparents were like.
I sort of grieve, even now, how much different their lives COULD have been.. Sadly, even my grandparents were aware of this. My mother once ask her for me, if she ever wanted to go back to Russia. She left in 1918. She said "the Russia she knew, was no longer there".
But she wasn't really HERE either...
You don't know what you're talking about but it's okay I can understand what you're thinking like that.
@@AndrewMalone_ Really?? Because i just told you my grandparents were immigrants..and about life in a closed immigrant community.
It is MUCH harder to leave EVERYTHING than you know...not just places and things, but food, culture, language, people...even radio and TV. OF COURSE they cling together...you would...
It is QUITE possible to flee for your safety, and still be homesick for everything you lost. They didn't leave willingly. It wasn't a lifetime dream, to live in whatever country took them in. That they had PLANNED ON, wished for....
Language, ALONE is isolating. Being bi lingual doesn't come easily to everyone, even with effort, and time. In small ethnic communities, it's quite possible to live a long life here, and NEVER learn more than a bunch of English phrases...mine didn't....though it will completely stunt their lives, here...
A BIG mistake, is assuming they can learn it from each other. Classes, even if free, take time. One will learn, and share. But they pass on THEIR mistakes, in grammar and pronunciation, on to the next. Which are NOW compounded SECOND generation mistakes, added to, by the new speaker, with their own less than perfect mistakes. NO ONE is there to correct them, that KNOWS better.
This is BASICALLY HOW you get THICK accents, that can be difficult, even impossible, to understand. And being understood, IS THE WHOLE POINT. Learn a language from it's native speaker. Preferably, a well educated one. No point in picking up a gutter dialect..you are aiming HIGHER than that...
And yes, Americans LOVE accents. But not so thick they are unintelligible. Being understood, IS THE WHOLE POINT.
SOOOO...are you merely an idiot American, or an immigrant who simply fails to understand their situation??? I'm thinking idiot American...
Because i'm hoping this will help an immigrant see their situation more clearly. And knowledge is EVERYTHING, babe...
We are ALL HOPING for changes in their countries, that may not happen..or not for decades. Many will continue to work on that. But THESE people bought the dream of democracy...which makes them halfway there....
Please leave behind the bad policies of the place you came from and embrace Our culture of FREEDOM.
After watching this, that’s what you have to offer up?