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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?’,… Read more…
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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… Read more…
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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.… Read more…
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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… Read more…
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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… Read more…
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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… Read more…
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