ANDREA MICHAELS
@TomandJerry · 3:21
I experienced a culture shock when I...
Loudly acclaimed during lunch, while any table we sat at was pulled away so it didn't touch their table. Brave girls came up behind me and felt my head for horns. Pennies were pitched in the stairways for me to pick up. I learned an entire new vocabulary on who I was. As names I'd never heard before were bandied about by kids who only repeated what they'd heard from their parents
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:01
When somebody experiences anything, whether it's because the color of your skin or a disability or religion, these things, they sort of sit inside of us, and they come out of stories. And in those stories, they're sort of knit together our understanding of who you've become and how you listen into the world and how you respond. And here you are taking the time to bring us into your heart. And I really appreciate it. Thank you
You. Thank you so much for that beautiful story of perseverance, resiliency, but also a story of a lot of horror. And I know that couldn't have been easy for you. And I'm just so glad that God has got you through it and that you're here today as a survivor to speak about it and to let the world know what happened to you. Thank you for that story
Natasha Nurse
@DressingRoom8 · 3:01
Now, granted, if someone has beliefs or is doing something that is contributing to harm of that person or harm of others, that's where life gets nuanced, right? Because then is it belief systems? Is it culture? Is it this, that, the other, right? Like all the different things. But at the end of the day, we meet people. We need to respect people. You deserve to be respected
My grandmother used to live near Marcy, near the Marcy projects in Brooklyn, and that's a hastic jewish community. Well, there's so much of the jewish heritage in New York that we all, I think most of us feel like we're partly jewish. My next door neighbor that I had from 13 to 40 something was an older jewish couple. They were amazing
Natasha Nurse
@DressingRoom8 · 3:17
There's more chaos that ensues from hatred and discrimination and harm and manipulation. That's, like, where chaos thrives. So a part of me wonders, is it just systemic of being a human being? Is it because of what we represent ordered chaos, that our society essentially is a reflection of that and our minds, and we're just, like, living out our truth of reality? And is it possible to change that reality? Yeah, but what does that mean, though?
So when we have a big enough contraction, I think there'll be two groups. I really think that's what it boils down to, the fear and the love groups. The fear are the ones who beget the wars and the fighting and the control to be in power. And love is everything else. And I think we've tried everything else except love. And I think we've tried everything else except fraternity. We've tried matriarchal societies. We've done the patriarchal society
Natasha Nurse
@DressingRoom8 · 2:39
Really interesting points raised. And what I think what stood out the most to me was when you said, kind of, there's two groups that people exist within two camps, the fear camp versus the love camp. And on my podcast with my husband, woken free, we have talked about the fact that, yeah, it for you to really have massive change in this world, it's going to be through love, not through fear
What? You heard me lol at the last sentence. But I thought about this. I thought about why does fear seem so strong? Why is hate so strong and love so seem so weak? And I think the conclusion that I've come to, in my humble opinion, is that fear doesn't require reciprocation. Fear runs entirely on itself. Hate runs entirely on itself. It doesn't need reciprocation. Love wants it because love wants reciprocation
Natasha Nurse
@DressingRoom8 · 1:17
It. You are 1000% right. I think you hit the nail right on the head. And that's actually quite brilliant because it could really be the explanation for what's the difference. Because, yeah, you're absolutely right. People can hate you on a one way track. You don't need to do anything to have someone dislike you, to have someone vehemently want to harm you. But to love is a two way street
Hi, good evening. The topic, the cultural shock, I can resonate it around my experience with my counterpart in us. This is about 15 years back from now. There was a meeting going on and some of the visitors supposed to come from us to India. And I was amazed to see that. What kind of questions is being asked in the call? One is whether it is safe to travel to India, whether they can get good hotels in India to stay