After four generations of immigration, a New World woman find the mysteries of extended lineage often crop up as synchronicity, quirks of taste, wanderlust: ghost urges from genes and culture long ago severed.
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The twinge of heritage
Posted in American culture, culture, friendship, history, identity, tagged arugula, Baltic, Berkeley, borscht, comfort food, Eastern Europe, ethnic, harem, heritage, immigration, Istanbul, Italy, lineage, Lithuania, Mediterranean, New World, Northern California, Ottoman, regional, Spam, synchronicity, Turkey, turkey burger, wanderlust on November 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Reacting to taboo
Posted in culture, friendship, harem, history, identity, memoir, society, taboo, women, tagged anachronism, Asia Minor, cloistered, enabling, expat, harem, invisibility, Muslim world, Oxford, refuge, stereotype, taboo, TED, TEDGlobal, unthinkable, virtual, wisdom, women on June 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Taboo’s unintended cloaking effect: we banish from our thoughts the most unimaginable human acts, making us blind to them in our midst
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