You're welcome, and I meant to reply to this before, I am sorry. The gay analogy is a good one - you don't know what it's like unless it happens to you, and it's not even what you would feel like travelling to Holland, or indeed, India, because it's never a feeling of being wholly alien, because you do fit - just not quite exactly.
You seem like the most English person I know. Working in a bookshop, going to Oxford, etc.
*laughs* Funny you should say that. I was having one of my periodic culture moans a couple of years ago, talking about my first couple of years in school - which were a horrible shock; I didn't have friends, I didn't know how to make friends, I was so lost in the language and so painfully shy that I came across as mute and stupid - and someone said to me, but, you still got through it all, you still won. And that's it, I guess. I had a bad start, but that's all it was.
Identity is very interesting indeed, I concur! Mine is a work in progress. I think everyone's is.
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on 2007-05-14 11:58 pm (UTC)You seem like the most English person I know. Working in a bookshop, going to Oxford, etc.
*laughs* Funny you should say that. I was having one of my periodic culture moans a couple of years ago, talking about my first couple of years in school - which were a horrible shock; I didn't have friends, I didn't know how to make friends, I was so lost in the language and so painfully shy that I came across as mute and stupid - and someone said to me, but, you still got through it all, you still won. And that's it, I guess. I had a bad start, but that's all it was.
Identity is very interesting indeed, I concur! Mine is a work in progress. I think everyone's is.