{"id":356,"date":"2025-06-02T05:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/i-crisscrossed-america-to-talk-to-people-whose-views-i-disagreed-with-i-now-have-one-certainty-us-news-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T05:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:19:33","slug":"i-crisscrossed-america-to-talk-to-people-whose-views-i-disagreed-with-i-now-have-one-certainty-us-news-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/i-crisscrossed-america-to-talk-to-people-whose-views-i-disagreed-with-i-now-have-one-certainty-us-news-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"I crisscrossed America to talk to people whose views I disagreed with. I now have one certainty | US news | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Xenophobic and authoritarian politics draw their power from a fear of foreigners and strangers, an idea that the dangers they pose are already around us, needing to be identified and rooted out. But as Toni Morrison observed, such ideas often reflect \u201can uneasy relationship with our own foreignness, our own rapidly disintegrating sense of belonging\u201d. The problem lies less with the strangers among us than the strangeness within, the consequences of a feeling of radical estrangement from the world.<\/p>\n<p>In my writing, I try to show how everyday structures of isolation \u2013 at home and on the road, for the body and the mind \u2013 magnify the social and political divides we lament so often. These interlocking walls of everyday life sharpen the divide between insiders and outsiders, making it hard to take unfamiliar people and perspectives seriously, to acknowledge the needs of others and relate to their struggles.<\/p>\n<p>So much turns on the edges between the familiar and the foreign, these lines we\u2019ve come to live with on a daily basis. Can we learn once again to take these edges as spaces of encounter, rather than hard divides between ourselves and the world beyond?<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2025\/jun\/01\/united-states-polarization\">www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2025\/jun\/01\/united-states-polarization<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xenophobic and authoritarian politics draw their power from a fear of foreigners and strangers, an idea that the dangers they pose are already around us, needing to be identified and rooted out. But as Toni Morrison observed, such ideas often reflect \u201can uneasy relationship with our own foreignness, our own rapidly disintegrating sense of belonging\u201d. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}