p. 30 The sociologist Ruth Hill Useem coined the term "Third Culture Kids" to refer to nationality-confused global nomads like me, because, she said, we fuse our birth culture and our adopted culture into some entirely new, blended culture. But I didn't necessarily feel like a man without a country. I knew where home was; I just wasn't living there.
p. 31 "To be rooted," wrote Simone Weil, "is perhaps the most important and the least recognized need of the human soul."
p. 40 Some people with odd obsessions become acutely aware of how their expertise makes them different (cf. my childhood love of maps). But others blithely assume that everyone shares their fanaticism, as you probably know if you ever had a college roommate whose favorite band was Rush.
p. 44 American parents often cite "stranger danger," without seeming aware that only 115 U.S. children are abducted by strangers every year - almost a one-in-a-million occurrence, not something to base a lifestyle on.
p. 57 Being so close to so much laboriously gathered information gives me a strange satisfaction with the scope of human ingenuity, the way other people might feel visiting Hoover Dam or the Great Wall of China.
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