I liked that article. Despite being whiter than jasmine rice, I still find the "where do you come from?" question difficult to answer simply, and am relieved to be able to say "London" instead of needing to bore people with my whole story.
It's an odd misconception that you should somehow feel connected to a far-flung country because your ancestors lived there centuries ago, even if your entire life has been spent morris dancing in Loughborough.
This was pretty much how I felt about living in Britain when I was younger, although having family here made it less weird. I'm used to it now, though, but I never feel especially "British", whatever that means.
I'm glad that overt racism is no longer socially tolerated, so that bigotry has to invest in the joys of plausible deniability.
One of my favourite Stewart Lee lines ever: "If political correctness has achieved one thing, it's to make the Conservative Party cloak its inherent racism behind more creative language"
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Date: 2010-03-06 02:59 pm (UTC)It's an odd misconception that you should somehow feel connected to a far-flung country because your ancestors lived there centuries ago, even if your entire life has been spent morris dancing in Loughborough.
This was pretty much how I felt about living in Britain when I was younger, although having family here made it less weird. I'm used to it now, though, but I never feel especially "British", whatever that means.
I'm glad that overt racism is no longer socially tolerated, so that bigotry has to invest in the joys of plausible deniability.
One of my favourite Stewart Lee lines ever: "If political correctness has achieved one thing, it's to make the Conservative Party cloak its inherent racism behind more creative language"