Starting At Age 20 When I Lived With A Mexican Peasant Family Deep In La Sierra Gorda...

... I was able to escape the hermetically-sealed silo-ing that Florence Luscomb describes below. 

"The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled lane with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and impoverished lives." Florence Luscomb, architect and suffragist (1887-1985)