The Difference That Makes a Difference: We Need More Guts!
The Difference That Makes a Difference: We Need More Guts!

Summary/Abstract: When I arrived on this planet, for the first few years I felt very small and it seemed to me that so many other people were bigger and had more understanding of what was going on. I believe we have all experienced this. Day-by-day, the problematic world of adults becomes our own as we grow. “Teachers” who were supposed to teach us actually do only what was done to them. We find a “new” experience in the process of becoming civilised. This process has different values in different times and different places. In the time and place where I grew up, this process was mainly led by people with low self-esteem who openly or secretly undermined others to make themselves feel better. In such surroundings, being a child, going through puberty or just being alive makes you feel ashamed. If, on top of all that, you are designated as being among the most stigmatised groups in Europe, you are in big trouble. Growing up Romani and gay in the 1980s in Serbia was something you really have to hear about!

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