2 days Ago By The Straits Times
Stephen Bush This isn’t the first time that humans have had to live through an increased amount of ambient noise from one another. Which is worse? Having someone describe your ethnicity in a way that you dislike, or having someone knock on your door in the dead of night, demand your proof of residence and bundle you into a van? I ask only because apparently the question is rather more difficult than I had thought it was. There is no question that there are many labels that the well-meaning left seeks to impose on me without my consent.
One particular dislike is the people who write to tell me that I should refer to myself as “mixed heritage”, a term that makes me sound like a tomato. Already a subscriber? Log in Get exclusive reports and insights with more than 500 subscriber-only articles every month $9.90 $9.
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