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‘Yes, I’m Irish’Posted in Autobiography, Europe, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, Videos on 2017-08-09 14:59Z by Steven |
YouTube
The Journal.ie
2017-08-06
‘Yes, I’m Irish’ is a video series focusing on the experiences of mixed-race Irish people. They told us how the Ireland of today compares with the one they grew up in.
Watch the entire series here.
“My mother said, ‘By identifying yourself as black, you’re cutting out the whole other side of your heritage. You’re not acknowledging the fact that half of you is white, that half of your background is white.’ That I wasn’t acknowledging that she existed.”
“I’m starting to see myself as mixed. If I’m asked my identity, I will say Northern Irish and it took me a long time to say that and to feel comfortable saying that.” — Jayne Olorunda
Dean Van Nguyen, “Half-white, half-Asian, but no less Irish,” The Irish Examiner, August 15, 2015. http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/half-white-half-asian-but-no-less-irish-348324.html.
Today I define myself as half-white, half-Asian, but no less Irish.Posted in Excerpts/Quotes on 2015-08-18 20:40Z by Steven |
Having your core ‘Irishness’ questioned raises issues when attempting to get to grips with your own sense of self.
As a teenager, I referred to myself as white, perhaps in an attempt to fit in with my peers.
Today I define myself as half-white, half-Asian, but no less Irish.
Dean Van Nguyen, “Half-white, half-Asian, but no less Irish,” The Irish Examiner, August 15, 2015. http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/half-white-half-asian-but-no-less-irish-348324.html.
Half-white, half-Asian, but no less IrishPosted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, Autobiography, Europe, Media Archive on 2015-08-17 01:48Z by Steven |
Half-white, half-Asian, but no less Irish
The Irish Examiner
Dublin, Ireland
2015-08-15
Half white, half Asian Dubliner Dean Van Nguyen speaks to other mixed-race Irish people in their twenties and thirties about growing up in a primarily white culture, being subjected to racist taunts, and coming to terms with their own sense of self.
Who am I? It’s a simple question, but one we as human beings frequently ask ourselves – it defines our sense of self identity, from childhood right throughout our lives, and can play a major role in shaping the people we become.
When it comes to self-concept, there are some obvious factors that we know from an early age just by examining our circumstances.
For generations of people born in Ireland, many of the key questions seemed pre-answered: You were Irish. You were white. You were Christian.
As African-American comedian Reginald D. Hunter joked at a Vicar Street gig in 2011, Ireland is “where they make white people”.
While the country is becoming ever more pluralist as we get deeper into the 21st century, for those of mixed-race now in their twenties and thirties, the answers to these questions of self-identity have been less simple…
Read the entire article here.