What is it like to be repeatedly asked where you are from?
It is a question that ethnic minorities are constantly asked, but why exactly is it so loaded? …
Identity is complex and constantly changing. If I tell someone I’m Indian, what does that mean to them? Does it imply I must have more in common with someone who has lived their whole life in Bangalore, than I do with a white person who grew up in the same city as me, went to the same school, walked the same streets, drank under-age in the same pubs and taunted the same teachers?