your personal story explains what keeps many rural/small town Americans from not only leaving but climbing the social ladder. Social network anchoring. This is why immigrants do so much better at social mobility I think. They don’t have any local network anchors and have enormous ‘freedom’ native born Americans do not.
Some of the best at creating a small town in the metropolis of Nashville are immigrants from Central & South America. Better at politics, human inter-relationships, and international relations. Better citizens. More in touch with how our founding ancestors felt. They "get" America.
This hits that nerve that vibrates in me every year around the holidays -- the time when those who stay and those who go feel that tearing in the heart. I spend a lot of time thinking about home and leaving and staying. I loved this very much.
It is a bittersweet sort of feeling. I, too, spend a lot of time thinking about places and what home means, especially when it's so very easy to live inside the worlds of our screens, which do not feel like places. Or are they? I don't know. Is Twitter a place? Thanks for commenting.
your personal story explains what keeps many rural/small town Americans from not only leaving but climbing the social ladder. Social network anchoring. This is why immigrants do so much better at social mobility I think. They don’t have any local network anchors and have enormous ‘freedom’ native born Americans do not.
Some of the best at creating a small town in the metropolis of Nashville are immigrants from Central & South America. Better at politics, human inter-relationships, and international relations. Better citizens. More in touch with how our founding ancestors felt. They "get" America.
This hits that nerve that vibrates in me every year around the holidays -- the time when those who stay and those who go feel that tearing in the heart. I spend a lot of time thinking about home and leaving and staying. I loved this very much.
It is a bittersweet sort of feeling. I, too, spend a lot of time thinking about places and what home means, especially when it's so very easy to live inside the worlds of our screens, which do not feel like places. Or are they? I don't know. Is Twitter a place? Thanks for commenting.
Interesting but adds to my holiday melancholy. Grown children who will never come home for more than a short visit.
Sorry to add to your holiday melancholy. You're always welcome to come hang out with us!