The Everyday Global Citizen Blog
In my recent episode of The Everyday Global Citizen Podcast, I explored how belonging and identity shape us across a lifetime. But these questions begin much earlier — in childhood.
Children are incredibly perceptive.
They notice:
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Who gets questioned
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Who gets corrected
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Who is rep
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In the latest episode of The Everyday Global Citizen Podcast, I explore belonging and identity through my lived experience of growing up cross-cultural — born and raised in Norway to Palestinian parents.
What does it mean to be asked where you are “really” from?
How does identity develop when it is ...
“Where are you really from?” is a question I’ve heard more times than I can count. It’s almost always asked right after I say I’m from Bergen. The implication is clear: Bergen isn’t an acceptable answer for someone who looks like me.
As a cross-cultural person with visible difference - olive toned...
I was 24, walking alone through the warm streets of Singapore, when a wave of confusion hit me - again. A melancholic song echoed in my earbuds as I stared at the skyline, wondering why I still felt so lost. I had a degree, a job, a stable income, and yet… no sense of rootedness.
That moment became...
