The pain of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is on the surface in Alabama's "Seafood Capital," Bayou la Batre, where Asian grocery stores sit next to Dollar General and Hardee's.

Phong 'James' Tran looks out over the Gulf Coast waters beyond his boat 'Little Dragon Two.' Anna Boiko-Weyrauch/World Vision Report

Everyday people start lining up for compensation from BP at 4 a.m. in front of the company's Bayou La Batre office. The queue of patient people reflects the diversity of the town: groups from Laos and Vietnam chat next to black, white and Latino people. As I approach the line with microphone in hand, most of the Asians don't want to be interviewed. They either giggle and say, "No English!" or tell me to go talk to someone else. Later one community member says they don't trust outsiders because some have been taken advantage by unscrupulous lawyers.

"Don't mind them," says one young white man in a ball cap standing in line with his arms crossed. "They can't understand you anyways." He is frustrated that "they" keep cutting the line and "they" don't even deserve compensation. "The Vietnamese, mostly they just sit all day in the processing factories. We're the ones out there doing the real work." He works on oyster reefs. "I ain't never seen them out there doing that."

The oil spill has hurt everyone on the coast; both people on the water and inside the processing plants. This man can't, or doesn't, want to acknowledge that the person who he says just cut in line is actually the most disadvantaged.

Have you been personally affected by the oil spill in the Gulf Coast, and if so, how?

Listen to Anna's story about the impact of the Gulf Coast oil spill on Vietnamese immigrant workers.