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But Where Are You Really From? (A Different Perspective)

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The now infamous exchange between Ngozi Fulani and Lady Hussey has elicited some interesting discussion and discourse about why pressing for information regarding one’s cultural background has uncomfortable undertones depending on which side of the questioning you are on. All of the arguments I have heard and read regarding the offensiveness of the question are centred around race and the position of the interrogator and the interrogated. Or in other words, the host citizen and the modern citizen. All of… Read More »But Where Are You Really From? (A Different Perspective)