Transcripts for CNN Nomad With Carlton McCoy 20240604 04:09:

CNN Nomad With Carlton McCoy June 4, 2024 04:09:00

you guys should rebrand that. >> sarah hagy writes social commentary through the lens of a second generation somali torontonian. there. i said it. >> your family immigrated here from somalia. >> yeah. >> what year did you all come? >> my family came here in -- i don't know. i wasn't alive. they came in '89. when my mom first came here she came without my father. the civil war hadn't started, and i think there was an idea that things were headed in the direction of a civil war which is why my family came here so early. and then i think in '94-ish there was a huge influx of somali immigrants, refugees. and also i think a lot of serbian and bosnian people as well because that was going on around the same time. so it was a huge time for people to come to scanneda. canada. >> do you know why she made the decision? >> because she knew people here. there's really something for everyone here. there's something for every kind of person. there's a place called rasta pasta that's like -- you know, it's exactly what it sounds like. it's like jerk chicken pasta. and it's amazing.

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