Guest Post – Collaboratively Assembled
The Zimmerman family comes from a Southern U.S. experience and traditional South American Catholic heritage.
Within each there’s a heavy heritage about rules, and how you “get along with folks”, both constructs are essentially emotionally conservative, perhaps to a fault.
Visible responses when framed as ‘public displays’ which can be construed as ‘violations’ of the laws governing “how to be a nice person” are so strong, they actually can over-rule the basic instinct for self-preservation.
Standing back and looking objectively toward the Zimmerman clan, the instinct for self-preservation (in the context of community) is what seems to be crippled; And “community” for them is — the other nice people. So if all the nice people stick together and continue being nice, everything will be ok.
As long as everyone in the community is nice, that works. (more…)





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