{"id":32375,"date":"2024-04-01T19:45:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T17:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/?p=32375"},"modified":"2024-04-01T19:45:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T17:45:36","slug":"they-them-identify-yourself-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/they-them-identify-yourself-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"They\/Them: Identify Yourself Immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>The mechanical obligation to reveal one&#8217;s origin at the start of each French conversation can be both laborious and uninteresting.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sabah Haider<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Identify yourself immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat\u2019s your origin?\u201d is how French people say hello to people that don\u2019t look or sound like them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat\u2019s your origin?\u201d is how French people say you\u2019re not from here and never will be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat\u2019s your origin?\u201d is how French people say: simplify yourself immediately!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Would they understand if we told them? That we come from the lands they colonized over and over again. Or maybe parts of us come from there. And other parts from another place they violated too. Do <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">they<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> even remember?<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Et toi, c&#8217;est quoi ton origine?\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This mechanical, meaningless question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So colorless, unoriginal, and grating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m from a place you\u2019ll never understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32476\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32476\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Merien-Elatra-Ceci-nest-pas-un-selfie-This-is-not-a-selfie.jpg\" alt=\"Merien Elatra Ceci n'est pas un selfie (This is not a selfie)\" width=\"770\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Merien-Elatra-Ceci-nest-pas-un-selfie-This-is-not-a-selfie.jpg 770w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Merien-Elatra-Ceci-nest-pas-un-selfie-This-is-not-a-selfie-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Merien-Elatra-Ceci-nest-pas-un-selfie-This-is-not-a-selfie-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Merien-Elatra-Ceci-nest-pas-un-selfie-This-is-not-a-selfie-768x774.jpg 768w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Merien-Elatra-Ceci-nest-pas-un-selfie-This-is-not-a-selfie-600x605.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Merien-Elatra-Ceci-nest-pas-un-selfie-This-is-not-a-selfie-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merien Elatra Ceci n&#8217;est pas un selfie\/This is not a selfie (courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/print\/Painting-Ceci-n-est-pas-un-selfie-This-is-not-a-selfie\/1660464\/7913292\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saatchi Art<\/a>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Context of \u201cIdentify yourself Immediately\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be non-French in France ultimately means facing the challenge of the French insisting at the start of every conversation to know where you originate, so they can put you in a box \u2026 and you\/we\/I, being unable to simply explain where we\u2019re from because of the complexities that form the webs of our individual identities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Socially, it\u2019s certainly one of the most fascinating and frustrating observations I&#8217;ve made (and lived). In France, identity is not as fluid as someone of a non-European background might be used to. People of the SWANA countries have experienced centuries of migration, colonializm and post colonializm, emigration and immigration, diaspora and homeland, changing borders, marriages across families that get divided by new borders and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many years ago I remember when the term \u201cThird culture kids (TCK) or third culture individuals (TCI)\u201d entered the cultural zeitgeist to describe those of us who were raised in a culture other than that of our parents\u2019 or places of ethnic origin, or cultures of our nationality. TCIs, both adults and children, have lived in different environments in our formative years and are exposed to greater cultural influences. The term finally gave a label to first and second generation diaspora kids growing up between cultures and places.\u00a0 Thinking about these terms now however only frames the fact there\u2019s immense complexity in shaping who we are and how we identify.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in France, complexity is avoided and dismissed. \u201cWhat\u2019s your origin?\u201d is the simple, common, socially accepted conversation starter. To many of us hearing this mechanical question is not just exhausting, it\u2019s colorless, unoriginal, and, frankly, boring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mechanical obligation to reveal one&#8217;s origin during French conversation is not only tedious, but downright boring, writes Sabah Haider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":544,"featured_media":32475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3453],"tags":[2937,1331,3469,3381],"coauthors":[3470],"class_list":["post-32375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-tmr-40-paris","tag-identity-politics","tag-paris","tag-third-culture-kids","tag-third-generation-kids","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.8 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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