"Our backgrounds were very much identical," Madoff went on.
"Our backgrounds were so different," Ms. Mabry said.
Everyone working on the game has been volunteering their spare time, so our backgrounds are really varied.
Cooking side by side for nine months, my classmates and I learned how diverse our backgrounds were.
Our backgrounds are quite different – Al had a silver spoon, whereas I had more of a rusty one.
Alumni no longer look alike, and our backgrounds are no longer homogeneous, but we have shared experiences and shared values.
"Our backgrounds are very different," added Dr. Clayton-Pederson, who is black, "but it's almost like the reverse of what happened to African-Americans".
We can all benefit from educating ourselves this way, since this can only enhance our understanding that no matter what our backgrounds are, we are more the same than we are different.
(Hiddleston emails me later to say they share "a sense that our experience of life and our backgrounds were considered to be somehow artistically inauthentic" – and indeed both films have been revolutionary in their straightforward presentation of privilege).
"We connected because our backgrounds are similar and she wants me to have a long and successful career like she's had," added Salas, who, along with Piller, joins the U.S. team of Stacy Lewis, Paula Creamer, Cristie Kerr, Angela Stanford, Brittany Lincicome, Lexi Thompson, Jessica Korda, Brittany Lang, Morgan Pressel and Michelle Wie.
