Killwish
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Ваша оценкаHow does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport?
Or be told that, as an actress, the part you’re most fitted to play is ‘wife of a terrorist’? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated and used aggressively towards you? How does it feel to hear a child of colour say in a classroom that stories can only be about white people? How does it feel to go ‘home’ to India when your home is really London? What is ...
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Nazira_K11 мая 2019 г.Читать далееКнига представляет собой 21 историю о том, как люди разных наций и рас чувствуют себя, живя в Великобритании. Истории все разные по посылу и настроению. Есть пара довольно агрессивных позиций, несколько недовольны сложившейся ситуацией, многие просто пытаются показать свою сторону медали. Последнее как раз и помогает понять, в чем заключается расизм в такой казалось бы прогрессивной стране. Выходит так, что громкие слоганы о том, что все равны и должны обладать равными правами, на деле довольно часто не работают. Черным, азиатам, арабам, индусам и пр. довольно тяжело найти работу в сравнении с белыми. Ожидания от людей разной внешности и нации варьируются согласно стереотипам и, следовательно, отношение к людям соответсвенное.
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- Nazira_K11 мая 2019 г.Читать далее
The universal job of being a writer is to write, to write with empathy, to be brave and honest, to find joy conveying a journey and in sharing your passion. Your ink is replenished by your life experiences, by taking off the mask and using your limitless imagination, by stepping out of the shade and into the light. As a woman may write in the voice of a man, I don't see why a writer cannot imagine the voice of another shade and culture, that is what imagination is all about. Whatever shade you are, as a writer, you have just one task each day, one battle, and that is you against the blank page. Every writer should have just that in mind, nothing else matters, just that one fight is more than enough to contend with, each and every morning.
135 - Nazira_K8 января 2020 г.
His Indian/British accent was a map of where he'd been and what he'd seen. ... His voice mirrored those journeys, a living imprint of his memories, and revealed the things he didn't about himself.
027 - Nazira_K8 января 2020 г.Читать далее
Although my hair was different, the real change wasn't the hairstyle, but in my attitude towards feeling accepted. By conforming, I felt like I had a place in the world, and the feeling felt good. The real lesson is learning to hold on to that feeling no matter what your hairstyle is.
There is no one way to be black. Our worst performance is entertaining the idea that there is.
I don't feel as if I own, or am allowed to own, 'real suffering', because of the colour of my skin. Instead, I bear a different kind of badge, one I'm supposed to be pleased about: 'model minority'. Is yellow too pale a colour to shout about?
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