False assumptions are made about me, but that’s nothing like the treatment meted out to those of other ethnic backgrounds
If I had to think of a moment in my life where racist language was used against me, nothing comes to mind.
But if I had to think of a moment in my life where I was exoticised, where notions of cultural idealism were projected on to me, where false assumptions were made about me – I have an abundance of examples.
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