Many of us have had the opportunity to hear at least a relative mumble “the apple don’t fall too far from the tree” in reference to our learned behaviors from our parents. While some behaviors can be a result of something genetic, our feelings are not. Feelings are learned or programmed into our minds as children and may very well remain there unless we become open to the world around us, as adults. Watching the news, it’s not so hard to see how “learned feelings” are harming our potential to build a sense of national community. In the wake of the current racial, religious, and sexist disturbances around our country, the negative responses coming from all of the different communities of people only shows one thing, we are living out the feelings that we have witnessed from our elders. The important thing to remember is that while some of us have had to grow and foster the feelings set in us, there is a generation of young people who are growing up behind us. Let’s use them as a clean slate and opportunity to teach love, tolerance, and peace.
Written by Princess Kabakole
Writer/ Creative Consultant/Production Assistant
B.S. in Communications Media
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