Something like feeling out-of-place, unwelcome, or adrift is universal, even if the causes and the depths of those feelings are completely different. So while I can't actually know what this experience is like (for either an individual or the group as a whole), I can get a sense of what some of it must feel like, and that makes me think all the more about how much I just don't know about other people's history and experiences.
There are so many gaps in our education (and when I say "our" I mean American public education, grades K-12 and even beyond) -- they're getting better, but unless I go out and find these things -- unless people like you share them with me -- I have no way of beginning to conceive of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding.
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Date: 2009-01-31 08:54 pm (UTC)Something like feeling out-of-place, unwelcome, or adrift is universal, even if the causes and the depths of those feelings are completely different. So while I can't actually know what this experience is like (for either an individual or the group as a whole), I can get a sense of what some of it must feel like, and that makes me think all the more about how much I just don't know about other people's history and experiences.
There are so many gaps in our education (and when I say "our" I mean American public education, grades K-12 and even beyond) -- they're getting better, but unless I go out and find these things -- unless people like you share them with me -- I have no way of beginning to conceive of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding.