English to Russian Other Government / Politics

Доброго времени суток.

When Jay told me that story, I said to him: “Is there a better defini-tion of ‘Minnesota nice’ . . . ‘I was so mad at another driver who nearly ran me off the highway, I almost honked!’ ” That is Minnesotan for road rage. Ilene’s reaction was that of a fundamentally decent person shaped by a fundamentally decent place.

This story of St. Louis Park is the story of how an ethic of pluralism and a healthy community ***got built one relationship, one breakup, one makeup, one insult,*** one welcoming neighbor, one classroom at a time— from bricks and logs that were not automatically destined to fit together easily. And I tell it here because St. Louis Park is a microcosm of the “ordinary miracles” that make America what it is when it is at its best. I tell this story because we are going to need these ordinary miracles more than ever—communities whose inhabitants feel connected, re-spected, and protected and that can both anchor and propel their citi-zens in the age of accelerations.

Спасибо.