Tuesday, November 13, 2012

a sentence that fell out of my mouth this morning

compraste más mléko, darling...? a oui!

spanish
czech
english
french

i stopped for a second, and we both giggled. as much out of amusement as discomfort.
if language=culture
and culture=identity

then who the fuck is someone who speaks multiple languages?

you would think that would be someone who could identify with multiple cultures and people, but i find more and more that i feel excluded and the outsider.

"Belonging to a group may be a fundamental building block in one's identity, the sense of 'who one is in the world'. Identity is fundamentally a group process" Malcolm MacLachlan

"[All human beings need to belong to a set of groups, and that they frequently change their modus operandi from the individual to group entity and vice versa]"  S. C. Carr

what if you start to belong to so many groups you lose a sense of self?

i find myself throwing the adolescent temper tantrum, "nobody understands me!!!"

tonta


http://watchonlinefree.tv/tv/how-i-met-your-mother/season5/episode5/duel-citizenship

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