Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Names can be a life or death affair

In the movie Breaking and Entering, Juliette Binoche was a Bosnian woman who emigrated to the west. When asked about her son's name, she said that she and her son were only be able to get out of Bosnia, past the soldiers at the checkpoint, because her son's name was a Muslim name.

"In my country, names are like flags. You can live or die because of your name."

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