Boat people is a term that usually refers to refugees, illegal immigrants, or asylum seekers who emigrate in numbers in boats that are sometimes old and crudely made. The term came into common use during the late 1970s with the mass departure of Vietnamese refugees from Communist-controlled Vietnam, following the Vietnam War.
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Famous quotes containing the words boat and/or people:
“You and I were a couple of drunks on the sea of booze and the boat sank.”
—J.P. (James Pinckney)
“It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)