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(1/4)
I wish Ireland had more community for the South Asian diaspora
I’m really sick of having to look at my life through a white lens
with my Indian identity and culture in the retrospective -
a small sad part of me I’m encouraged to disavow
I wish Ireland had more community for the South Asian diaspora
I’m really sick of having to look at my life through a white lens
with my Indian identity and culture in the retrospective -
a small sad part of me I’m encouraged to disavow
(2/4)
- rather than an identity I will always hold concurrently to any changes I experience in moving, settling, learning.
where I’m judged better when I lose fighting for the integrity of my name,
where I’m judged as less Indian by our community, but talked to by white people
- rather than an identity I will always hold concurrently to any changes I experience in moving, settling, learning.
where I’m judged better when I lose fighting for the integrity of my name,
where I’m judged as less Indian by our community, but talked to by white people
(3/4)
about other Indians derogatorily cos forced assimilation gave me natively/chameleon-accented fluency in English.
where my physical and intellectual identity is messed up because it’s judged
relative to white social standards, and how well I consume and can be
about other Indians derogatorily cos forced assimilation gave me natively/chameleon-accented fluency in English.
where my physical and intellectual identity is messed up because it’s judged
relative to white social standards, and how well I consume and can be
(4/4)
consumed into their collective consciousness -
how well I represent the ‘good dark migrant’,
how I cope only being valued as ‘not bad at [performing] Irish[ness], for an Indian’ whether explicit or implicit,
rarely how I feel ‘normal’ as a sum of my cultures and values.
![(4/4)consumed into their collective consciousness -how well I represent the ‘good dark migrant’,how I cope only being valued as ‘not bad at [performing] Irish[ness], for an Indian’ whether explicit or implicit,rarely how I feel ‘normal’ as a sum of my cultures and values.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbciX6yXgAEkDb8.jpg "(4/4)consumed into their collective consciousness -how well I represent the ‘good dark migrant’,how I cope only being valued as ‘not bad at [performing] Irish[ness], for an Indian’ whether explicit or implicit,rarely how I feel ‘normal’ as a sum of my cultures and values.")
![(4/4)consumed into their collective consciousness -how well I represent the ‘good dark migrant’,how I cope only being valued as ‘not bad at [performing] Irish[ness], for an Indian’ whether explicit or implicit,rarely how I feel ‘normal’ as a sum of my cultures and values.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbciX6yWkAAvzcI.jpg "(4/4)consumed into their collective consciousness -how well I represent the ‘good dark migrant’,how I cope only being valued as ‘not bad at [performing] Irish[ness], for an Indian’ whether explicit or implicit,rarely how I feel ‘normal’ as a sum of my cultures and values.")
consumed into their collective consciousness -
how well I represent the ‘good dark migrant’,
how I cope only being valued as ‘not bad at [performing] Irish[ness], for an Indian’ whether explicit or implicit,
rarely how I feel ‘normal’ as a sum of my cultures and values.
