Stories of New Americans Podcast with Ron Klutho on NewsTalkSTL

Ron Klutho talks to Yuri Bollato from Korea

MUSIC: 먼지가 되어 by Kim Kwang Seok

Next week Ron will talk about Ireland with Helen Gannon.

Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL

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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

Ron Klutho talks to Rajiv Gurung from Nepal

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

Next week Ron will talk about Korea with Yuri Bollato.

Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL

Find out more about Ron at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://newstalkstl.com/stories-of-new-americans-with-ron-klutho/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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/

Ron Klutho talks to Miky Balta from Romania

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

Next week Ron will talk with Rajiv Gurung about Nepal!

Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL

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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

Ron Klutho talks to Daniel Thang Pui from Burma

MUSIC: ⁠Zogam Aw by Thawn Kham

Next week Ron will talk with Miky Balta about Romania!

Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL

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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

Ron Klutho talks to Lucrecia and Marcelina DaSilva from Angola

MUSIC: Esperança · Yola Semedo

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

Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL

Find out more about Ron at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://newstalkstl.com/stories-of-new-americans-with-ron-klutho/⁠⁠⁠⁠

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

Ron Klutho talks to Alesya Bernatskaya from Belarus

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

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

Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL

Find out more about Ron at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://newstalkstl.com/stories-of-new-americans-with-ron-klutho/⁠⁠⁠

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

Ron Klutho talks to George Ndjungu from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

MUSIC: ⁠⁠Mungu Mwenyezi

Next week Ron will talk with Alesya Bernatskaya from Belarus!

Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL

Find out more about Ron at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://newstalkstl.com/stories-of-new-americans-with-ron-klutho/⁠⁠

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

Ron Klutho talks to Vicente Estrada from Cuba.

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!

Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL

Find out more about Ron at ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://newstalkstl.com/stories-of-new-americans-with-ron-klutho/⁠⁠

Ron Klutho talks to Zoran Lazic from Serbia.

MUSIC: Riblja Corba - Pogledaj Dom Svoj Andjele

Next week Ron will talk with Vicente Estrada from Cuba!

Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL

Find out more about Ron at ⁠⁠⁠https://newstalkstl.com/stories-of-new-americans-with-ron-klutho/⁠⁠

Ron Klutho talks to Safeta Ovcina from Bosnia.

MUSIC: '⁠⁠⁠⁠Sarajevo ljubavi moja' by Kemal Monteno

Next week Ron will talk with Zoran Lazic from Serbia!

Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL

Find out more about Ron at ⁠⁠https://newstalkstl.com/stories-of-new-americans-with-ron-klutho/⁠⁠