Really listening to your family over Thanksgiving can build empathy—even if you talk politics
We’re writing as two white, cisgender healthcare professionals who share the experience of living “between two worlds,” in both of our cases, the relatively conservative communities where we grew up and the progressive cities where we have lived and worked as adults. We want to share a little about what our experiences navigating between those cultural spaces has taught us about maintaining relationships with people whose beliefs are different from our own.
Years later, I watched the 2016 election from Philadelphia with a group of friends from the East and West Coasts. The conversation inevitably drifted to factors that had influenced its outcome. I became frustrated as the conversation progressed, especially when I heard sentences beginning with the words ‘those people,’ such as,"Those conservative voters.""Those rural White voting blocks.
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