Because when my grandparents were born, they pretty much had their sense of home, their sense of community, even their sense of enmity, assigned to them at birth, and didn't have much chance of stepping outside of that.
Pois quando meus avós nasceram, eles tinham o seu sentido de lar, seu sentido de comunidade,  e mesmo seu sentido de inimizade, dado a eles ao nascer, e não tinham muita chance  de escapar disso.