#PalestiniansSpeak: Enaam Salem

- What's one thing that you admire about your parents' generation?

- One thing I admire about my parents' generation is that they always went back. They never cut off Philistine. Philistine was always a part of them, they brought their culture with them and they made sure that that culture was ingrained in their children, that they raised their children in that culture. And that's one thing that as an adult now, I'm forever grateful for. As a child, I probably resented half of those things, but it's really important, I think, and that's one thing that I really admire that generation for is keeping up with that culture and making sure that they instill that culture within their children, within their households, and that they extend that on to their grandchildren, keeping those stories alive, letting us know who our relatives are, our ancestors, their stories, their childhood, their upbringing, keeping that alive, I think that's really important. It really taught us, it really kept a fire ignited within us that we belong to something bigger than who we are here in America.