Yascha Mounk: Avoiding The Identity Trap
The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
Exploring Family History and Identity
The speaker shares their family history, discussing their grandparents' communist beliefs, survival of the Holocaust and Soviet Union, and their own experiences growing up in Germany. They reflect on growing up Jewish in Germany, memories of the Berlin Wall falling, and encountering social norms and instances of anti-Semitism and phyllo-Semitism. The chapter also highlights the speaker's love for New York and its cultural diversity, while discussing cultural appropriation and the importance of understanding opposing arguments.
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