tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830947668960231847.post3462366183180528662..comments2023-08-15T07:42:07.154-07:00Comments on AlterNativeArt : What exactly is an "Afropolitan"?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830947668960231847.post-82185938689503813822009-09-10T06:39:04.001-07:002009-09-10T06:39:04.001-07:00Identity is a strange thing!
It is never limited a...Identity is a strange thing!<br />It is never limited and even worse, never static, making it a difficult thing to define.<br />Take for instance the Brazilian, in being brazilian the Afro/black brazillian is told that his race is not a part of his identity, yet when he looks at his social situation he see's that it is mainly the brazillians who look like him who live in poverty/ bound by subversive racism! What about when the Dominican rejects their colour and defines them self as indian, is this their identity?<br /><br />Who is the African? is he the White South African, the Indian east African, the Arab in Morroco, is it the Black Nigerian. <br /><br />National identity is great, in that the American refers to them self in that way, the French, the German it is usually the African who is identified as being African and little else. This definition is usually by the other/ outsider and well its up to us to understand what it really is.<br /><br />We are what we are seen to be either by ourselves or by others however real or imagined this is.<br /><br />Who has the answer?Oyindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04681633775194116344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830947668960231847.post-2870408835040375962009-09-06T15:22:02.817-07:002009-09-06T15:22:02.817-07:00Why can't we simply be African?
Better still,...Why can't we simply be African?<br /><br />Better still, why can't we be Ghanaian, or Nigerian or Ivorien?<br /><br />Yes, I know we're not simply just any of those identities, but you've copped out from going into why.Venture Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01915600504642896288noreply@blogger.com