April 2015 Without Borders – Reimagining Cultural Identity
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Without Borders: Reimagining Cultural Identity
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How do you define & embrace your cultural identity? How has diaspora shaped your sense of belonging in our society?
Love
Human identity is a human right ♡
Human – Earthlings
An essential part of all human beings
I’m torn. Being Puerto Rican is the foundation for everything. I’ve become but some days I feel like I’m neither Puerto Rican nor anything at all.
Food such as maklouba
By not being afraid to talk about who I am or where I am from
By doing debka all day everyday
I embrace my cultural identity by proudly wearing my hair in its natural state. Being a child of Diaspora has shown me it’s important to maintain one’s heritage
I embrace my cultural idea
By telling people who I am & my culture. I am Assyrian. I am Syrian. I value my culture. I learn about my heritage. I take pride of who I am.
Realizing that some people don’t want to accept you – F them
Connection to your heritage
By remembering those who came before me and fought for me to be here
By expressing how proud I am of not being only Mexican, but also embracing my Puerto Rican culture.
I express it through music, playing songs that have been phased on and heard through generations
I feel like I’m from everywhere and nowhere all at the same time, I am neither part of anything and everything. There’s moments and fluidity in my identity. I’ve lived here my whole life but I’m not American, I am Mexican, I am Chicana, I am a woman.
Honoring pride in where I am from and who I am
Express my culture by constantly representing in any way possible. Poems, and educating other on exactly what PALESTINE is
By taking pride in who I am inside & out
By being tenaciously Pakistani, relentlessly Muslim and painstakingly proud. By not watering down my identity to be able to swim upstream with people who could not care less about culture
By being Boricua de corazon. By embracing my heritage con razon. By added to all my food adobo y sazon. I am Puerto Rican. I am cultured. I am like every other one of you with culture, with customs, with life
Embrace your identity, Boricua for life
Because my cultural identity is made of a multitude of backgrounds. I embrace the curls and kinks in my hair, size of my hips, shape of my lips; all given to me by all the migrants that builts this country
Ni de aqui, ni de alla . Nor from here or from there. I am struggling w/ my identity but I know that I am a human and deserve dignity and respect