I've recently watched "Lost Boys of Sudan," a documentary film by Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk. It is an Emmy nominated feature-length film following two Sudanese refugee boys on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America...

These boys were lucky to make it out alive of Sudan, and were even luckier to be picked to come to America... As they embark on a new and frightful, but anticipating journey to the "Land of Opportunity," they discover it's beauties and ALIEN/"new" culture! What most thought of as "heaven on earth," turned out to be a culture where they felt alienated by it's individualistic ways. Though, they were no longer subject to physical pain or torture, even hunger... They had to endure an ALIEN-LIKE culture... Could they ever get used to it?? Was it heaven after all?? One of the boys.... his relative had called from a refugee camp back in Africa asking why he doesn't call or send money back home... The boy replied that America is a different land, where TIME is an important resource, and he rarely has time to STUDY!! Money is spent on rent, food, clothing, utilities and the means to SURVIVE in America... NOT WHAT IDEAL NOTIONS OF AMERICA are to refugees back in Africa...!