What’s Your Mix?Posted in Articles, Autobiography, Media Archive on 2014-10-15 19:21Z by Steven |
Mixed Roots Stories
2014-10-07
Lill Salole
Oslo, Norway
”Where are you from”? That feeling. When you don´t easily fit into any clean, closed categories. When your looks don´t match people´s expectations and definitions, and the answer is messy. Confusing. Ambiguous. Sometimes even deemed as politically incorrect and provoking. Like being part black, part white. Or having an upbringing influenced by Catholic, Methodist, Lutheran, Atheist, as well as Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu principles.
When this question is posed, I often have to deliberate. I must quickly decide whether to give whoever is asking the long or the short version. I always have to consider my relationship to them, and evaluate how interested he or she really is in this story. I have to think about what my mood and level of patience is, as well a how much time we have.
The trouble is, even the short version quickly becomes very complicated…
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