Tag: code switching

bessielovesculture:

“That was my biggest experience going to Merchant Taylors’. Extreme code switching. The most confusing conversation is to have to talk about the colonization of our continents.” We laughed a little at the ridiculousness of sentences like “we colonized us,” or “we took us into slavery.” But then his face turned serious. “That’s what we are. We are the inheritors of the scars of Empire, but also the spoils of Empire. And that kind of inside/outside state is totally ingrained in us. Which is why, at a time like now, where everybody’s being asked to pick a side, everything is binary, it’s a confusing time to be us.”

— Riz Ahmed Acts His Way Out
of Every Cultural Pigeonhole