Who am i

How do I know who I

am?

“A third culture kid is a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside their parents’ culture. The third culture kid builds relationships to all the cultures, while not having full ownership in any. Although elements from each culture are assimilated into the third culture kid’s life experience, the sense of belonging is in relationship to others of the same background

http://www.tckworld.com

Sense perception

Language

Colour

or

Color?

Tomato

or

Tomato?

Reason

All people with a British passport are British

I have a British passport

Therefore I am British

http://africanancestry.com

Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs,dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed withthe same food, hurt with the same weapons, subjectto the same diseases, heal'd by the same means,warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summeras a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us,do we not die?

William Shakespeare “The Merchant of Venice”

Emotion

In April 1990, Norman Tebbit proposed the "Cricket test", also known as the "Tebbit Test", where he argued that whether people from ethnic minorities in Britain supported the England Cricket team (rather than the team from their country of origin) should be considered a barometer - but not the sole indicator - of whether they are truly British..

The spirit of the nation is … the universal spirit in particular form.

Hegel

For those of us without the benefit of early, first-hand influence of another culture, some aspects of Englishness can be so deeply ingrained that we find it almost impossible to shake them off, even when it is clearly in our interests to do so.

Kate Fox “Watching the English”

English things I do do: (Things that make me English)

Queue, even when the queue is invisible, as in a pub

I drive courteously

All meeting rituals are performed badly

Use and expect Irony at all times and find it hard to take anything seriously for too long

I take public transport but never speak to anyone on it

I cheer for the underdog

I have “an uneasy, difficult and largely disfunctional relationship with clothes”

I never complain in a restaurant (or anywhere else actually)

English things I don’t do:

Talk about the weather

I have no squeamishness about talking about money

I have no relationship to cars

I have no sport talk

I don’t suffer from Nostalgia

I don’t have a sense of privacy

I admit to being an Atheist

Humans vary gradually in nature, yet for cultural reasons we partition them into races (just as we divide time, which is continuous, into discrete units of minutes, hours, and weeks).

This is why anthropologists no longer talk about races; we talk about populations. We talk about local, fluid, bio-cultural units. Those are what are out there in nature, as far as we can tell.

http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-12.htm

Jonathan Marks Department of AnthropologyUniversity of North Carolina - Charlotte