We’ll be slowing our pace down so we can dig deep into this book over eight weeks in October and November.PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. You’ll want to join us next week for a fun author interview here in Book Club!īeginning October 8th, we will be reading Glorious Weakness: Discovering God in All We Lack by Alia Joy. What’s your takeaway from Trevor Noah’s memoir? What lessons have you learned? Ultimately, Born a Crime is about how someone with a unique cultural background developed his own identity. So, Patricia’s story doesn’t come across as a cautionary tale. Hospital that discouraged saving her life because it would be expensive. This chapter was the most heartbreaking: normalized domesticĪbuse, police refusing to file reports about it, Patricia being shot, a Subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women.”
My mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be Plenty of girls back in Tzaneen being raised solely for that purpose. “If he wanted a woman to bow to him, there were
Though Abel wanted “a traditional marriage with a traditional wife,” he marriedĪ woman who refused to be that. Not answered in this chapter, but she did explain to Noah why Abel married her. I wondered last week why Patricia dated and married Abel. We can learn so much from her about love, faith, ambition, risk The last and longest chapter is all about Patricia Noah, What are the sides, and how does life force me to choose? You can say that you don’t pick sides, but eventually life willįorce you to pick a side.” In the immediate sense, I see what he’s saying about To sit at, he said, “I still had to pick. It’s not a South African problem or an American problem.īack in the holding cell, when Noah was choosing which table What can we take with us about that? It is a massive, evil monster with anĮxtremely broad reach. Systemic racism is an overarching theme throughout this book. This applies to our home culture as well as our host culture. Relationships with people, yet we don’t compromise the counter-culture ofįollowing Jesus. We need to fit in while not fitting in so that we have enough common ground to establish We’ve got some common ground, when we fit in. The paradox is this: we build relationships with people when In with any or all of those groups in a different context, but now it’s Hearing, where, “if I picked the wrong table I might get beaten.” He could fit To choose which racial group to wait with in the holding cell before his The stakes are raised in chapter 17 when he had All along, Noah has been talking aboutīeing a cultural chameleon, navigating between different cliques in school, but I see you as a human being.’” Speaking someone else’s language communicatesĪnother lesson is one I’m going to call The Fitting-in Paradox. Them, ‘I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. Language, even if it’s just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to Noah says, “When you make the effort to speak someone else’s The big, scary looking man wasn’t scary after all. While in jail, Noah noticed a language barrier between the police and one big, scary looking man who had been arrested. We talked a bit in a previous week about the benefits of speaking someone else’s language to them, but in this final section of Born a Crime, Trevor Noah brought it up again. It’s difficult to get serious language study to the top of my priority list. I have picked up some Swahili and notĪs much Giryama over the past 7 years, but with everything else I have to do, Get by just fine communicating in English.
Kenyan schools are taught in English, so most of the time I Speaking Giryama that they didn’t even finish the greeting. His sister/cousin turned to me and said, “ Mwirio?”
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