Tag: ancestry
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Ethnicity and Identity
What a heavy topic! And I dare to tackle it here. At least a part of it. I finished up the book by anthropologist, Manning Nash, entitled The Cauldron of Ethnicity in the Modern World. And I drew so much insight from it on both ethnicity and identity. First, ethnicity can be difficult to define…
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Questions about your ethnicity
Where were your parents born? or What’s your background? Questions that are referring to ethnicity in subtle ways. Yet, with all these questions, what does ethnicity really mean? Not being an expert myself, I recently read a book by anthropologist, Manning Nash, called “The Cauldron of Ethnicity in the Modern World” and watched the EPIX…
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How to answer where are you really from?
Where are you really from? A great question! Don’t think so? Well, I used to feel infuriated by it. Why wasn’t my first answer acceptable? Today, I love answering this question and it goes to say that often people don’t get a response they expect. So, how can you love this question? Chances are, by…
Tara Ramachandra 