Re: Culture / Ethnicity
- What is your ethnic / cultural background?
Jamaican... although I was born and raised in England
- How big a role does it play in your life?
A very big role.. being black, in a country where I am a minority, carries with it a whole lot of ugly issues in regards to how I am treated by certain members of the wider community.
And being from a Jamaican background, there are a whole host of extra prejudices about my community that really grate me, since all those prejudices are actively holding my community back, (i.e. Daniel Negreanu, I was NOT at all amused).
- How far removed are you from the immigrant generation of your family? (in the end we are all immigrants, except for the Natives)
Both of my parents and both sets of grandparents and great grandparents were all born and raised in Jamaica.
- Do you maintain any traditions from the "old country"?
I cook a lot of traditional Jamaican dishes, and I also love listen to some reggae and lovers rock... I also have an (inexplicable) love for cricket [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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