Cultural marginalization and homesickness
Having spoken to people so much about my future and having had to stay a night at the Sixth Avenue Inn recently, even though I am back “home” I still feel displaced. I like staying at five-star hotels because it makes me feel a lot like I came home. It reminds me of the Lidu. (Before its current fall.) I’ve gotten over the urge to tell every Holiday Inn employee I deal with that I live in the apartments in order to get better service, but I still miss it. I feel like I go from one local environment to another, try to make myself a little zone of transnationalism in a culturally oppressive majority view, get told I shouldn’t be so attached to other places when where I am is so great, and eventually start doing the chameleon trick. Staying at the five-star hotels is like a vacation from locality, even though I only live in them when I’m working now. It’s an escape into a deterritorialized zone where mobility is the norm and the environment is naturally a mix of people and places, everywhere yet nowhere in particular.
Looking at the Lidu website, I found the videos showing apartments. I almost cried. That’s our furniture! Those are our sofas, our dining room chairs, our layout… That’s home, almost exactly! I wish I could step into the video, go to the sofa and turn on StarTV. Or look out the living room window to look at ISB and the big foreign cars in the parking lot. Or walk into my room and see the scroll that’s on the wall to my right over my bed. But as for so many others, home is a combination of time and space. The Lidu isn’t as it was, and no one in our family lives anywhere in China anymore. My visa has expired for good. I have pages and pages of Z visas that are no good to me now. There are two more ring roads now. I can never go home.
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