Is There a Radical Self Acceptance?

The author says he has come to value his community in light of how you might be perceived in Western culture or in Christian communities. "There have been systems, I eat churches and others who have labored either directly and very consciously or indirectly and maybe unwittingly to take away name, language, stories" He asks: How do you bear the reality that certain contexts want to erase your culture? And yet you still live in both worlds.