Category: culture
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I mentioned in a previous piece that no law can change the way we look at another ethnic group. Although slavery and segregation have legally come to an end across the world, has racism really left our society? Has it perhaps just taken another route? And has the pain and trauma of those still suffering…
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I was once asked an interesting question by a French teacher in secondary school and it changed my worldview forever. My French teacher asked the class: “How many races are there in the world?” I had never been asked this question before and, by the looks of it, no one in the class had either.…
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There are so many beautiful things in this world. Some people find beauty in a late evening sunset, the bright blue of a tropical ocean, or even a star-filled sky on a clear night. I have personally always found beauty in the gathering of people from different ethnicities, cultures and backgrounds. Throughout my childhood, I…
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Let us take minute to rewind. This is only my second week into blogging about culture and identity, and last week we witnessed the unnecessary death of George Floyd – a black American citizen who was murdered by a white policeman in Minneapolis. I won’t describe the awful details of the video that captures the…
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