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African Male

If I’m a survivor I need to have a very trustworthy person who can help me with the situation I’m facing. Like, I trust them [with] my situation; they are not having any doubt about…

People that have the problem with sexual assault, that’s a very sensitive problem and they need an advisor uhh that to listen to their story and understand them and sympathize with them.

My best advice [for a survivor from my community] would be to go with someone you are familiar with, maybe your relatives, someone you can trust. […] Because Asian people would be really, really shy…

They should recruit some Southern Asian people so the language is much more important, because the victim should talk in their own native language so they have more confidence and they feel they are being…

I think with both my mom and dad there is a disconnect in their understanding of sexual assault. You know, when there is cases and stuff like that on TV, you know, they say stuff…

I have an elementary training in responding to situations like this – responding to delicate situations like sexual assault victims and people who have suicidal ideations. And it’s not something that a – a normal…

I don’t know how well this [policy] actually works in letting people know that there’s a safe environment for them where it is a non-judgmental. Like, I get that forms are out there and that…

It’s extremely difficult, in a sense of the male approaching somebody and admitting that they have been sexually assaulted. There’s numerous anecdotal cases from just Western society [unclear] where a – a survivor of sexual…

I think the most important thing to think about before you speak to someone who has been recently assaulted is to avoid having a judgmental or non-believing attitude. […] I think for them [the survivor]…

Yeah, along the same line as what they were saying, it is very sensitive and it is – it might – like, I can’t say for certain, but I would say due to how heavy…

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