I just looked up Olof Palme on wikipedia and he seems very interesting. I can't seem to find anything particularly infuriating from the quick look, though, so could you maybe give an example?
I find it really interesting that people would just assume you aren't British - you certainly look British to me! (Not that looks are always the best way to judge someone's nationality or ethnicity....) I've actually had the opposite problem in the US - because I have only a slight Chinese accent, people usually assume I am of (Han) Chinese descent, which is emphatically not the case...so it's been nice being in the UK and having my being Chinese taken for granted. (Yet funnily enough, even though people are so keen to ~include me as 'one of them', the society renders me perpetually Other.)
And I can relate to what you and eggcrack said wrt different languages and their vocabularies. I honestly can't think about, say, postmodernism/post-structuralism in Chinese because I learned all the theories in English, and even if I could, I really don't have anyone with whom to have those conversations.
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Date: 2011-05-23 05:20 pm (UTC)I find it really interesting that people would just assume you aren't British - you certainly look British to me! (Not that looks are always the best way to judge someone's nationality or ethnicity....) I've actually had the opposite problem in the US - because I have only a slight Chinese accent, people usually assume I am of (Han) Chinese descent, which is emphatically not the case...so it's been nice being in the UK and having my being Chinese taken for granted. (Yet funnily enough, even though people are so keen to ~include me as 'one of them', the society renders me perpetually Other.)
And I can relate to what you and