No, where you really from?
While I laughed last week at the amusing enquiries into my ethnicity, I have been reminded of the more serious side of the assumptions people make. A dear Puerto Rican friend who has lived in the UK for the past twenty years with her English husband has recently decided to move back to the States [...]
This article was posted on Tuesday, 6th April , 2010 at 6:21 pm and is filed under Reflections. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can also add a note to this post, or trackback from your own website.
Where you from, brother?
It is sometimes supposed that converts to Islam get special treatment in the mosque, but I’m not so sure. Moving in the circles I do, it has become quite apparent over the past few months that the notion of the convert is still alien to many people’s minds. A Palestinian friend I often walk back [...]
This article was posted on Thursday, 1st April , 2010 at 7:52 am and is filed under Reflections. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can also add a note to this post, or trackback from your own website.
