The Lost Boys

In class, we watched the movie "God Gave Up On Us". It was a documentary on the Lost Boys of Sudan. I experienced a sizable amount of culture shock while watching this film, paralleled by the culture shock the boys experienced upon arriving in America. I have become more sociologically mindful as a result of this film in the sense that I am acutely aware of struggles vastly different from my own. These people were forced to leave behind their home and everything they knew. I was reminded how lucky I am to have a constant home base to come back to at the end of the day. I cast so many things off as habits that they would consider luxuries. I guess I am somewhat ethnocentric because I see my way of life as correct, and theirs as foreign. In reality, both are correct, though vastly different. I am definitely a changed person after seeing this movie.