“因为只剩下200万亚述人了，我们族人就有种可能生存不下去了的感觉。所以我们依赖于自己的仪式、自己的教会，还有我们自己的语言，别人都不会讲的语言。这是一种‘我们’文化，所有事都跟群体相关。如果你离开群体太远，就会成为一个威胁，因为这个群体不能失去任何人。亲戚会提醒你应该为自己是亚述人而感到自豪，还会不断地讲我们族人过去被杀戮的历史。所以在这样的背景下，想走自己的路特别困难。过去几个月我一直在独自旅行，我妈确信这是我的逃跑计划。从小到大她对我都很严格，但几天前她给我发了条信息，把我给看哭了。信息里说:‘我知道自己说过‘你已经看得够多了，该回来了’这样的话，但如果你想待久一点，并且觉得很安全，那就待着吧。你回来时，我们自然就知道了。’”
（悉尼，澳大利亚)

“Since there are only two million Assyrians left, there’s a feeling that we might not survive. So we lean on our rituals. We lean on our church. We lean on our language, which nobody else speaks. It's a ‘we’ culture. Everything is about the group. And if you wander too far from the group, you become a threat. Because the group can’t afford to lose anyone else. Your relatives will remind you that you should be proud to be Assyrian. You’ll be reminded that our people were slaughtered. So it’s tough to go your own way. For the last couple months I’ve been traveling alone. My mother is convinced that this is my breakout plan. She’s been so strict on me my entire life. But a couple days ago she sent me a text message that brought me to tears. It said: ‘I know that I said you've seen enough and that you should come back, but if you want to stay longer, and you feel that it's safe, than you should definitely stay. And we'll hear from you when you come back.’”
(Sydney, Australia)