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" Nobody is ever just a refugee. Nobody is ever just a single thing. And yet, in the public discourse today, we often speak of people as single things. Refugee, immigrant. We dehumanize people when we reduce them to a single thing. And this dehumanization is insidious and unconscious. " - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One of the important ideas that this brings is how we use language and the certain connotations that are associated with a word. Refugee often associates with and attaches a characteristic of helplessness in it. In this way it is often fascinating on how are these deeper characteristics are attached to the word and if it's even possible to remove them. As Ngozi Adichie says: " nobody is ever just a single thing" and using a word describe a whole group of people, we have to be more considerate of the words we use and the deeper meaning within them.

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It's so easy to make the refugee crisis something that you learn about in school, that disappears if you close the textbook or the tab.
I don't like political debates about refugees because there's nothing to debate about.
It just a coincidence where you're born.
Don't be arrogant enough to invent reasons that you deserve the privilege of a safe life more than others.

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As fewer counties are being led by good people, there need to be more leaders like Justin Trudeau. A public figure can shape the views of a population, and in these dark times, is exactly what we need.

Accepting 40,000 refugees in less than 2 years was unprecedented for North America. Developing programs to get families on track, sponsorship programs and instant access to public education. Canada has embraced refugees with outreach programs, fund raising and campaigns to bring even more in. All this because of Justin Trudeau perspective and rederict. This is the kind of person the world needs to lead.

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The most thought provoking quote for me was one by Marine Le Pen when she said: "If you come to our country, don't expect that you will be taken care of." In this one sentence, Le Pen manages to make an 'in-group' and an 'out-group' and expresses, in a very blatant way, her distaste for Refugees. The danger, for me, in this quote is the nationalistic sentiment that is so deeply ingrained in the words 'our country' and how easy it is to fall into the trap of a 'mine' and 'theirs'. It has been shown time and time again that once the distinction between 'us' and 'them' is made, in this case in reference to refugees, it is exponentially easier to make monsters out of the outsiders and so it almost amazes me how this one sentence is incredibly loaded and powerful. I suppose in the bubble I live in, comments like these seem extreme and rare and so this quote was quite shocking to me. For a politician to so easily scapegoat another group and to gain the amount of popularity she did burst my bubble a little bit. I found having this quote contrasted with a very telling picture of how Refugees are just like everyone else highlighted how important it is to combat this anti-immigrant/anti-refugee rhetoric with humanising Refugees and using our voices to drown out that sentiment.

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The quotation that made me think the most was that from Lee Kuan Yew: "You've grow calluses on your heart, or you just bleed to death."  I found this particularly interesting in light of Nick's blog post on empathy and it's limitations (See Paul Bloom, Against Empathy).  LKY's view feels somewhat cold and detached in the context of the exhibition: how can we not respond emotionally to these images?  Isn't the problem that the pervasiveness of these images has hardened our hearts already?  Isn't part of the point of the exhibition to break past this over-familiarity?  But there is an important point here too, I think: responding only with our hearts - 'bleeding to death' - helps no one in the end.  That's why I think events such as this one are so important.  Refugees don't need our empathy: they need us to speak up and take action. 

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The quotation that made me think the most was that from Lee Kuan Yew: "You've grow calluses on your heart, or you just bleed to death."  I found this particularly interesting in light of Nick's blog post on empathy and it's limitations (See Paul Bloom, Against Empathy).  LKY's view feels somewhat cold and detached in the context of the exhibition: how can we not respond emotionally to these images?  Isn't the problem that the pervasiveness of these images has hardened our hearts already?  Isn't part of the point of the exhibition to break past this over-familiarity?  But there is an important point here too, I think: responding only with our hearts - 'bleeding to death' - helps no one in the end.  That's why I think events such as this one are so important.  Refugees don't need our empathy: they need us to speak up and take action. 