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Crossing Borders With
Literature
A Project
Across Municipal Boundaries
Sponsored by - The Princeton Area Community Foundation
Participant Comments
Survey Question 1:
What have you learned as a result of being in a group with people whose
life experiences and backgrounds are different than yours?
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The men from Rescue Mission were more intelligent and more articulate than I expected. Also more insightful.
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That there are no stereotypes when it comes to Great [sic] literature and when positive minds act as one.
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…everybody be true on the things that was read and you come up with a lot of the same thinks [sic] sometime [sic].
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That God has made us all the same and everyone has very loveing [sic] thing about them.
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There is a common thread that we all responded to despite differences in race, economic status, gender and life experience.
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I never new [sic] if was people on the outside that care about us after coming from prison or jail…They also have a lot of good information.
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In many situations, it is not easy to have a conversation with people who don’t appear to have a lot in common with you. The Crossing Borders program gave us an opportunity and a framework to discuss issues of substance and importance. I was delighted to hear the insights of others.
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Just a wonderful way to see how life experiences affect the way we understand events and motives.
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I learned a lot, new vocabulary and I hope the class can continue.
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From the beginning session, there was a sense of freedom and trust in what everyone had to see [sic].
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It was great to have people from different countries in the group. We were able to see how their backgrounds influenced their way of interpreting the stories.
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I think this has been a rare opportunity to share stories from different writers of different ages, different backgrounds, written in different time periods from different countries in a classroom setting with participants from different economical, racial, and religious groupings and different levels of formal education.
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From the participants themselves, as we have discussed the various stories presented I have learned things I didn’t know about immigrants in this country and the various obstacles and experiences different groups have had.
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In being in a group with people whose life experiences and backgrounds are different than mind [sic] I find that there is [sic] so many different way[sic] to viewing [sic] a subject.
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That even though we are different we are much alike. I truly enjoy our time together.
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That we have a lot of the same interpations [sic] on different things.
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You see them as they are, not how you want them to be.
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Sometimes one can become overly involved in one’s own life/world and lose sight of the humanity that links us all. Our hopes and dreams for ourselves and our families are universal.