Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
In a time when no one shuts up about their “trauma”, reading Vance plainly discuss a childhood that truly qualifies as traumatic, while drawing lessons from it and emerging stronger, is a model of American stoicism. Vance’s sympathetic but honest portrayal of his origins shows he’s proud of his culture, yet has been able to overcome its limiting aspects.
Vance’s father was out of the picture for much of his life. His mother was afflicted by drug addiction and poor relationships. The strongest figures in young JD’s life were his maternal grandparents, Mamaw and Papaw. Mamaw was a singular Appalachian matriarch: profane, tough as nails, armed to the teeth, and ready to go through hell for her family.
Hillbillies are known to be fiercely loyal to family and suspicious of strangers. Their inhospitable mountains, foothills, valleys, and “hollers” (hollows), once peopled, were not then re-settled by later waves of migrants like the rest of the United States.
As Vance describes it, in hillbilly culture, no perceived slight to family honour is easily let go.
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Vance’s father was out of the picture for much of his life. His mother was afflicted by drug addiction and poor relationships. The strongest figures in young JD’s life were his maternal grandparents, Mamaw and Papaw. Mamaw was a singular Appalachian matriarch: profane, tough as nails, armed to the teeth, and ready to go through hell for her family.
Hillbillies are known to be fiercely loyal to family and suspicious of strangers. Their inhospitable mountains, foothills, valleys, and “hollers” (hollows), once peopled, were not then re-settled by later waves of migrants like the rest of the United States.
As Vance describes it, in hillbilly culture, no perceived slight to family honour is easily let go.
Volodymyr Zelensky offended JD Vance’s Hillbilly sense of honour
European leaders, still reeling from vice-president JD Vance’s frank but cautionary speech at the Munich Security Conference, seemed stunned by last week’s White House meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky. But even before he was re-elected, Trump had made it clear that some old...