On holiday or when you leave forever there is always someone you'll find. It's the one you never want to be, the one you avoid, you don't want to be seen with him, he is the one for whom you left but is the one other people see in you.
Spanish, lazy; Italian, Mafia; English, dirty; American, ignorant; Islamic, religious extremist, and so on.
It doesn't matter how much you try to take the distance when you go abroad you will find your compatriot reflecting exactly that stereotype and you understand you won't get rid of it. First of all is because you are the first who has the same prejudice and second because there is really something true in those stereotypes.
It doesn't matter how much you try to take the distance when you go abroad you will find your compatriot reflecting exactly that stereotype and you understand you won't get rid of it. First of all is because you are the first who has the same prejudice and second because there is really something true in those stereotypes.
An immigrant find himself in his stereotype because you miss something in everyday life of your country and you try to rebuilt your identity at home. Your food, your music, your favorite TV show till you find yourself living in a small colony. You try and try to integrate and understand the new place but there are habit you won't never share.
What remains is tying to get the best from both the culture hoping will be enough to give something special to your children... one day.
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