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“In 2009, Zionist settlers, adorned with backpacks as if going on a weekend camping trip, entered our homes in occupied Jerusalem, escorted by Israeli occupation forces. They claimed that our home was theirs. After a tumultuous battle with two colonial committees in Israeli occupation courts, the settlers seized half of our home. Their takeover was part of a broader effort to ethnically cleanse the entirety of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. We were among 180 Palestinian families facing dispossession orders from Israeli courts that claimed that our homes were built on Jewish lands.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

“Differences in views of moral personhood are especially evident in immigrant families in the US. Children raised in America grow up in a very different environment than their immigrant parents did. For example, the parents may have been raised in a culture where teenage girls and boys didn’t go out on dates or interact with one another much at all, but now their children are growing up in a culture where this is expected. The children of immigrants are caught in two different systems. Doing what is “normal” in American culture may clash with their parents’ customary ways of showing moral personhood. Notions of how a moral person should interact with others aren’t easy to change because people learn these actions and protocols at an early age.”
― Elizabeth Keating, The Essential Questions: Interview Your Family to Uncover Stories and Bridge Generations

“People use spatial metaphors to describe human experience, such as being “trapped” in a relationship, or “running away from truth,” as if truth were a physical place. People grow up in different moral spaces (for example, the community where everyone goes to Bible study). In northern Canada, the Athabaskan and Tlingit people, who are surrounded by glaciers, believe that the glaciers “listen, pay attention, and respond to human behavior—especially to indiscretion.” [4] The spaces in which we live contribute to our sense of the world. Conversely, people also shape space, as evidenced in the wide variety of houses that people build around the world. Asking your parent or grandparent to describe their childhood home and neighborhood can open up many conversations about what growing up was like for them.”
― Elizabeth Keating, The Essential Questions: Interview Your Family to Uncover Stories and Bridge Generations

“Three books”
― Jr. Vine Deloria, Custer Died For Your Sins