by sue » Mon Jun 18, 2018 11:44 am
When my son was 6-ish, he asked my Dad to tell him the story of our family tree. Though Dad was a military assassin by profession, he looked, thought and spoke like a college professor. Dad told of his own English/Methodist heritage, genteel, educated and professional. He added the mix of Mom's Russian/Roumanian/Jewish lineage. People who had the determination and wisdom to escape the ovens, embrace America, have children (all of whom succeeded and fought in WWII), worked hard and died at early ages.
He had no hatreds nor prejudices to pass on.
My son matured to be a warrior and now creative and charitable and caring.
When viewing other cultures, we are wrong to expect this sort of freedom to think and act outside a programmed framework of bias and revenge. As with the Armenian headstones engraved with, "Never Forget", generational hatred moves on to new battles, new casualties and added bitterness. John has just described burgeoning conflict and the underlying reasons. Though we use cell phones and drive vehicles, our human inclinations remain the same.
When my son was 6-ish, he asked my Dad to tell him the story of our family tree. Though Dad was a military assassin by profession, he looked, thought and spoke like a college professor. Dad told of his own English/Methodist heritage, genteel, educated and professional. He added the mix of Mom's Russian/Roumanian/Jewish lineage. People who had the determination and wisdom to escape the ovens, embrace America, have children (all of whom succeeded and fought in WWII), worked hard and died at early ages.
He had no hatreds nor prejudices to pass on.
My son matured to be a warrior and now creative and charitable and caring.
When viewing other cultures, we are wrong to expect this sort of freedom to think and act outside a programmed framework of bias and revenge. As with the Armenian headstones engraved with, "Never Forget", generational hatred moves on to new battles, new casualties and added bitterness. John has just described burgeoning conflict and the underlying reasons. Though we use cell phones and drive vehicles, our human inclinations remain the same.