Humane always found ways to divide themselves, to identify themselves. Whether it be by families, tribes or nations, it has always been your way to individualize. These identities define you before your are even born and follow you from one end of the earth to another. But what's puzzling is that what you hold so sacred can be forgotten after generations. Your great-grandchildren may learn to hate something you held precious, not knowing that that piece lives within them. Like when a man of Irish Catholic descent in America joins the Ku Klux Klan, unaware that generates before, his family was targeted by that very group. Or the opposite can happen, like a Muslim marries a Christian--both unaware that they are descendants of ancestors who fought one another during the Crusades.Id. at 112-113.
Sunday, February 4, 2018
"ESCAPE IS NOT EASY"
Atia Avawi, A Land of Permanent Goodbyes (New York: Philomel Books, 2018).
