The semester started in the world of all the plays. Professor Brady started this section with a discussion about values. I knew that values in the U.S.A. are very different from those in Sweden, where I am from. Professor Brady asked us to rank what was most important for us. Most people in class said freedom and loyalty or obligation to family was most important. I thought that protection of personal dignity was the most important. If you do not have personal dignity, you do not believe in yourself. I think that you have to believe and love yourself before you can love someone else. It is at the point when you start to accept yourself that you can like someone else.
Just like most people in the class choose freedom as the most important value, my husband would too. My husband, Matt, signed up for the U.S.A. Air Force for 7 years ago to protect the U.S.A. and the world. For Matt, freedom is very important and he realized that the world was not safe 10 years ago when the World Trade Center was attacked in the terrorist attack. He is fighting so that his children can grow up in a world with peace. This is very different from me. I have not been grown up with the feeling that the world has been unsafe. I know that something happened in the U.S.A. but from the Swedish news there have not been much information about terrorism. I have been saved from the terrible feeling of an unsafe world which is the reason why freedom was not that important for me. I grew up assuming that the world was a safe place.
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