Comments | clyde_park: Parlez-vous francais?

clyde_park

Parlez-vous francais?

Sep 18, 2009 21:19

Early this week we had a new customer from Laos seek our services. This is nothing new since there is actually a sizeable Laotian population in Holland. It was told to us that no one in the home spoke English. Our first delivery seemed to bear this out when one of the ladies in the home tried to ask our driver for a cushion by saying, "Squishy ( Read more... )

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halphasian September 22 2009, 00:27:09 UTC

Ha! People can be pretty ignorant. (I do not exclude myself from that statement. I'm ignorant about a lot of things ( ... )

clyde_park September 22 2009, 01:32:42 UTC

There are "pockets" of Laotian folks scattered throughout Holland. "They" seem to try to put "them" together, because they tend to all live the same neighborhoods. There are at least three "Laotian neighborhoods" that I know of. They're relatively small neighborhoods though.

Our church here actually has a Laotian group that holds services in a separate room. There are probably about 25-30 Laotian members.