Cultural Marginalization Examples
Someone posted a very illustrative story about cultural marginalization for third culture kids on TCKID.
In primary school, I was in a public school with a foreign population of 75%.
On the first day I transferred there, a teacher went:” Stand up. Okay… If you’re from Singapore/ Singaporean, sit down.”
I sat down as I had been in Singapore for 5 years. But the guy beside me went:”Stand up! Didn’t you say you were born in Indonesia?”
So I stood up. The teacher continued: ” If you’re from China, Taiwan or Hongkong, sit down”
I sat down as my mother was from Taiwan and because I’ve spent part of my childhood there. The guy beside me told me to stand again.
The teacher, who noticed me standing and sitting at invervals asked me why was I doing what I was doing. And continued to ask if I understood Chinese and where exactly am I from.
I repiled in Chinese:” My mother is from Taiwan so I’m sort of Taiwanese. I’ve lived in Singapore for almost half my life, so you can say I’m abit of a Singaporean. Lastly, I’m Indonesian because I was born in Indonesia.”
The teacher shook his head and went: ” Are you confused or something? If someone asked where you’re from, they ask for your passport nationality .”
wtck also recently posted a conversation with someone who insisted that they pick a country.
These are the kinds of experiences that tell you very directly that you should not exist. It may seem like a mere slight, but over time, when you get told time and time again, all over the world, that you cannot and should not exist, it really gets to you.
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