boat person

If you’re a boat person who savors the faint scent of diesel, however, you’ll want to book Walter’s Room, a small bedroom and sitting room in the fog signal building.

If you’re a boat person who savors the faint scent of diesel, however, you’ll want to book Walter’s Room, a small bedroom and sitting-room in the fog signal building.

"I think the way state media has neglected Ke Huy Quan's history as a boat person is regrettable," says Nguyen Van Tuan, a professor of medicine at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and also a former boat person.

He thinks to himself: If I’m a boat person, then so were the English pilgrims who came to America on the Mayflower.

“I was not a boat person unless the English Pilgrims who fled religious persecution to come to America on the Mayflower were also boat people,” the narrator thinks.