Category: identity

  • Ask yourself the question: ‘who are you?’ Not your occupation, not your country of origin, not who your parents are, but who are you without the labels that society has given you? Many have tried to define exactly what identity is to a person and what identity includes. In my first article, ‘What is identity?’,…

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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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  • “Where are you from Laura?” “Which country do you feel you belong to?” “Do you miss your country at all?”. Being from a mixed-ethnic background I often get asked these questions. It’s impossible to explain in such detail what I have been trying to work out for many years. I have always struggled to give…

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