Stories of New Americans with Ron Klutho on NewsTalkSTL

MUSIC: 먼지가 되어 by Kim Kwang Seok

Next week Ron will talk about Ireland with Helen Gannon.

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0:00 SEG 1 Kim, Pak, and Lee are popular names | Where is Korea? | Koreans not being able to become Japanese citizens | North and South Korean people have a meeting time | Will North and South Korea ever unite? | Formal language VS slang | How did Korea become such an economic powerhouse | birthplace | weather

15:32 SEG 2 family members | father was a well educated poet and newspaper editor | older sister is a nun | elementary school | head of the class and respecting teachers | suicide due to pressure from parents | after school activities | video game addiction | Popular American music | majoring in French and becoming a social worker

32:28 SEG 3 Coming to America on a vacation and being proposed to | Liking St. Louis because it’s part city and part countryside | sports | Making friends with Americans | How big is the Korean community in St. Louis? | Korean restaurants in St. Louis | K-Pop music and K-drama films and shows | going back to visit Korea | the birth rate is low | The best thing about living in America is the job opportunities

MUSIC: Aakashaima Chil by Mahesh Thulung, Puspa Khadka, and Akesha Bista

Next week Ron will talk about Korea with Yuri Bollato.

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0:00 SEG 1 Where is Nepal and Bhutan | Buddhism and Hinduism | The language | Lobuchu | Grandparents were from Nepal | The 1990 Nepalese revolution | Not being able to practice certain religions | Burning villages | Using military force to catch protestors | His dad was in jail for 18 months and tortured | The Nepalese refugee camp | The death rate at the refugee camp | Food in the refugee camp

15:32 SEG 2 Lhotshampa Village | Learning English at an early age | Bowing your head in respect to teachers | The legal system in a village | Fleeing by foot in the night | The U.N. took over the refugee camp | He lived in the refugee camp for 17 years | Staying positive in a refugee camp

32:00 SEG 3 Where did everyone in the camp hope to end up? | The resettlement program came to the camp | Australia was the country he wanted to go to the most | His first day in St. Louis | The sun was still out at 9 pm | Working with the International Institute | His first job was in a kitchen | opening a Nepalese market which is also a type of community center | Momo dumpling | Are the refugee camps still open? | What's the best and worst thing about the U.S.? | His store is called Gurung Bazaar at Grand and Chippewa https://www.facebook.com/gurungbazaar/

MUSIC: Ciprian Porumbescu: Balada pentru vioară și orchestră, op. 29 by Mădălin Voicu

Next week Ron will talk with Rajiv Gurung about Nepal!

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0:00 SEG 1 Where is Romania on the map? | Romanian is a romance language | Are there any Ukrainian refugees in Romania? | Count Dracula was a real person | Romanians love garlic | Bran Castle is a very well known tourist attraction | The 1984 Summer Olympics boycott | Communism | Her aunt was a nurse who went to jail | There was no heat in the winter

16:25 SEG 2 Secret police | Nicolae Ceaușescu | Her dad wanted to be an attorney | Her dad worked at the Ministry of Finances in Bucharest | Childhood | Typical Romanian diet | The United States was called the land of possibilities | Was the education in Romania good? | Health insurance | Tipping the doctors and nurses | Why were the Romanian Olympians so good?

32:57 SEG 3 Teaching during the 1989 revolution | Executed bodies were shown on TV | Meeting her husband | Learning English in university and early days in America | Being adopted by America | Romanian community and church | Life in America is 1000 percent better | Love of God and prayer | What is the best and worst part about America? | America's drug problems | The national anthem puts tears in her eyes

MUSIC: ⁠Zogam Aw by Thawn Kham

Next week Ron will talk with Miky Balta about Romania!

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0:00 SEG 1 Where is Burma on the map | Being colonized by Britain | being under Japanese control | The father of Burma | 8/8/88 protests | changing from Burma to Myanmar | the Chin people were discriminated against

16:51 SEG 2 Childhood | parents were farmers | image of America as a child | applying for the diversity visa lottery | every country gets a handful | getting to Malaysia on a boat

34:11 SEG 3 How he came to the United States | Being sent to St. Louis by himself through Catholic Charities | It was hard to find a job | Meeting other Burmese people in America | What was shocking when he arrived in America | Living with a roommate | getting pulled over by a state trooper and getting pulled out of the car | best thing about living in America

MUSIC: Esperança · Yola Semedo

Next week Ron will talk with Daniel Thang Pui about Burma!

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0:00 SEG 1 slave trade in the 1600's | cotton gold and diamonds | they said they had no apartheid but that's not true | the school was in Portuguese | what was school like | Catholic school | no running water | jobs after school | teaching at missionary schools | married | coup started

16:44 SEG 2 struggling to get independence | 3 political parties | what made her family leave | witnessed executions | going from Angola to Namibia | South African military was helping refugees | escaping on a bus | going to a refugee camp and sleeping in a tent with other families for 2 years | rations in the refugee camp | living day to day

33:35 SEG 3 being considered stateless when born as a refugee | nobody spoke English | driving the length of Namibia in a blue pickup truck with 6 kids in the back in order to get to Botswana to stay in a refugee camp | coming to America in 1990 | trying to learn English while in a refugee camp | watching American movies and going to the library | coming to St. Louis in February was a shock | was taken to an apartment and didn't know how to turn on the heat | starting school in America | all the houses looked the same | 2 bedroom apartment for the 8 of them | going to school in flip flops in the winter | things started to fall in place once they found their church community | going back to Angola to visit | keeping Angolan culture alive | best and worst parts of living in America

MUSIC: Касіў Ясь канюшыну (Yas mowed the stable)” by Песняры (Pesnyary)

Next week Ron will talk with Lucrecia and Marcelina DaSilva about Angola!

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0:00 SEG 1 Where is Belarus on the map? | invasions of Belarus, dictator of Belarus aligned with Putin | Why is Belarus its own country | Belarusian language | How is it different from Russia | the USSR and the Soviet era | History presented differently, Russiafication | Belarusian language not taught in elementary school | losing a lot of population during ww2 | visiting Minsk memorial in 2011 showing how Nazis burned villages | Minsk ghetto | grandparents fled while others were slaves | Belarus became independent in 1991 | being 12 years old in 91 | parents discussed politics after kids went to sleep | Chernobyl accident in 1986, the wind carried the nuclear waste to her town | dad was going to be sent to rebuild Chernobyl. People passed at the age of 40 of cancer | Father was a civil engineer | Were there celebrations for Belarus' independence? | Changing the name of Belarus | What does Belarus stand for?

17:40 SEG 2 the unavailability of necessities | reselling items to make money | rations and coupons | freezers were small | ice cream | Lukashenko | laws change all the time | falsifying elections | Lukashenko assisting Putin | childhood, living with parents and grandparents | parents sent to Siberia for internship | 35 kids go through the entirety of school together | no variety in what subjects are taught | how America was presented. Movies 'Red Heat', 'Weekend at Bernies', people would line up to watch vhs cassettes | Americans were presented as spoiled | no diversity. Everyone looked alike | being curious about America and Europe | Manhattan represented America. St Louis was like a camp | How she moved to America | St. Louis was chosen for them | Moving in 1996 at the age of 15

34:27 SEG 3 going to the refugee office, any backlash from employers or friends, keeping it a secret | anti-Semitism | religion not allowed, baptized in secret | did not speak English | E.S.L. classes at Parkway Central | pavilion apartments in Creve Coeur had other immigrant kids so she didn't feel weird | started 2 years back in high school | do her own kids speak Russian? | trying to keep the culture alive | Russian pop culture | Ms. Anna was like a 2nd mother | Russian foods | working at Wash U now | would probably be in jail if never left | best and worst things about America | final words of wisdom

MUSIC: ⁠⁠Mungu Mwenyezi

Next week Ron will talk with Alesya Bernatskaya from Belarus!

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0:00 SEG 1 Where is the Democratic Republic of Congo? | over 300 different ethnic groups | parents are from 2 different tribes | official language is French | it was under Belgian control for a while | King Leopold made it his playground | Katanga wanting to secede | Lumumba and Mobutu | changing the name to Zaire | changing the name back to the Democratic Republic of Congo | First Congo War | rebel groups in the southern part of the country | tribalism is a huge problem | borders were drawn by Europeans | it's a rich country full of natural resources

15:52 SEG 2 Grew up speaking Swahili | school | physical punishments at school | teachers are respected | what did kids do for fun, marbles kick the can | Kabila regime | punishment on the scene | no littering or eating in the street, forced to eat as punishment | parents were missionaries | father was a church planter | Christians and Senegalese Muslims | moving to Senegal at 8 years old | learning academic French and Wolof | losing accents | playing soccer in the streets of Senegal, wrestling is a major sport | Mbalax music | Senegalese dancing uses the lower body while Congolese dancing uses the torso | Senegalese food is greasy

32:47 SEG 3 Coming to America for parent's missionary work | senior year of high school | college in South Carolina | Interest in Japan and DEATH NOTE | Going to Japan for 3 months accelerated his learning | joined the school soccer team, stayed out all night | working in Japan for 2 years | Japan was very clean | Japanese food | working in a youth center in Japan as a mentor | coming back to the U.S. as a green card holder | choosing St. Louis over Dallas | being a YMCA counselor | had America changed since he was a kid | America abandoning it's traditional American values | best thing about living here in America? | Do you feel welcome? | people guessing where he is from | return to Japan | encourage Americans to love our country

MUSIC: Cuando Sali de Cuba by Vince and Tony Estrada and Friends

Next week Ron will talk with George Ndjungu Estrada from the Democratic Republic of Congo!

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MUSIC: Riblja Corba - Pogledaj Dom Svoj Andjele

Next week Ron will talk with Vicente Estrada from Cuba!

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MUSIC: '⁠⁠⁠⁠Sarajevo ljubavi moja' by Kemal Monteno

Next week Ron will talk with Zoran Lazic from Serbia!

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MUSIC: ⁠'Hallelujah' by Leonard Cohen

Next week Ron will talk with Safeta Ovcina from Bosnia!

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MUSIC: 'Liten Fuggel' by Vamp

Next week Ron will talk with Tamara Kulish from Canada!

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MUSIC: Nduwawe by Maya Nzeyimana

Next week Ron will talk with Andreas Birkedal from Norway!

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MUSIC: ياسر عبد الوهاب & زيد الحبيب - قلبي ( حصرياً ) Yaser Abd Alwahab ft Zaid Alhabeeb - Qalby

Next week Ron will talk with Rozi Niyayokira from Burundi!

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MUSIC: Def Tech - My Way

Next week Ron will talk with Mohammed Nasr Alashari from Iraq!

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MUSIC: So Good - Eddy Kenzo

Next week Ron will talk with Naoya Fujimoto from Japan!

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MUSIC: Adnan karim Law Rozhawai tom diwa

Next week Ron will talk with Christine Sseremba and Majesty Mukulu from Uganda!

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MUSIC: Vaçe Zela - Moj e Bukur Arbëri

Next week Ron will talk with Mustafa Saleh from Iraqi Kurdistan!

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MUSIC: The Singing Nun “Dominique” 1963

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Music: CLAUDIO VILLA - Mamma

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Music: Kang JJ Kua kor pel

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Music: Ne me quitte pas Jacques Brel

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Music: Knez - Adio

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Music: Aththitha Nodadiru

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Music: Exuberante - Bountiful

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Music: Ludwig van Beethoven: Ode an die Freude/Ode to Joy 1

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MUSIC: Lâu Đài Tình Ái - Đàm Vĩnh Hưng

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MUSIC: CHUMA QHANTATI DISCO 25 AÑOS KALLAWAYAS

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MUSIC: 情人 谭咏麟 (歌词版)

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MUSIC: MAGIC SYSTEM - Magic In The Air Feat. Chawki

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MUSIC: Yulduz Usmonova - Hech Kimga Bermaymiz Seni O'zbekiston

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MUSIC: Vörös Rébék - Koncz Zsuzsa

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MUSIC: Jambo Bwana Kenya - The Crane Band

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MUSIC: Javed Amirkhil - Mansori Sarood

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MUSIC: CECILE KAYIREBWA - None Twaza

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MUSIC: با من صنما - کیهان کلهر و علی بهرامی‌فرد

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MUSIC: Шляхи буття - 09 Різдвяна пісня

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