In the Mix !

     

           

                         Hello my dear english speakers or understanders !

Welcome to my first 1.0 english article. Yea ! I love this language. I really do, you know one of the reason I actually moved to England then Scotland and then Ireland ( I need Wales and I will have the full package ! ) was for the beauty of this language. Eveything is so simple, like in 3 words u will spread a lots of emotions. I think that compare to other languages, this one is the one with which you have to open the mouth the most and also play with facial movements the most also. I am not surprised why english mother tongue speakers are so open and lively. English language encourage the person who talks it to be alive !

On this intro, I would like to say that I will at least make half of my articles in english so that I can spread my messages to the vast community. I kept french as this is my mother tongue first but also because I like complications... and french is a complicate language, you need 10 words to express what you want.

Ok lets move to my topic today of something that is really deep in my heart. Mixity of races. There are a few things you cannot fight in this world. You can t fight your age, you can 't fight technology, and you can t fight Globalization, move of people from continents to continents, countries to countries. This is still surprising to me now when I hear that there is such a big amount of Xenophobia or racism. Today on the radio, I also heard that french government want to bann the Burka or scarf ? Come on what the heck is it so disturbing in seeing someone , or maybe not seeing someone because she is under a piece of clothe. As long as she is not harming anybody then she has in my opinion the right to dress like she wants.  And what about all tourists people coming from saudi arabia and so on ? will we also bann them then or exceptionnally allow them as they are tourists ?

There is no doubt that I am talking on an experience basis being myself Vietnamese origin born in France, I had to logically and systematically mention my origins to people all my life. France in 2025 is said to be so Mixed race that only one person out of 5 will be completely white ( not french , white ! ), when some detractors tell me " This is not France " I reply this is France, This is the world we are moving like when the spanish, the portuguese moved to south America, the english/ Irish to North america etc... it s part of evolution . 

One day my brother actually told me that racism actually  grows in someone when a person discovers that the one he thought was different and inferior is actually like him, lives like him, act like him. I think it is very true... This proves to me that racism is very linked to low self confidence.

Cheesy but there is so much to learn from difference and there is a lot to earn in self growth by going to the different other ( I am not talking about tolerating the other which is for me a bad word ).

This is just a few words about this topic but it will certainly come back again in some other articles as it sits deeply in my heart.

And if someone jokes and tells me "come back to your country I reply " how come is it your country now ??? " just because you decided ? " Well I decide that this is my planet " what do you have to say ? 

Cheerio my friends

Written by Jean Michel Poc