"how should we judge those who don’t like to queue up in your country when food rationing was still a thing until 1996 in theirs?
For whom bumping into you on the street is typical behavior in their congested home town of 11 million people with a sink-or-swim daily reality and where ‘personal space’ is a contradiction in terms?
Should we reprimand those who quite possibly spent a lifetime under oppression and have only recently eeked out the means to see a world that they’ve been told is the enemy for traveling by bus with a group of friends?
Who wear colored hats because getting lost in a country where they don’t speak the language would cause a panic attack?"
This quote is actually totally failing to capture the tone and finesse of this essay - it's touching and it's written in this evocative and balanced way, it solidly achieves something.
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