Author Shares His Life Through An Ethnic Lens

When I was a young man, I was given a priceless gift by someone a lens through which I could understand my own interactions with the world.

The person in question, a mental health professional and a good friend, did tell me that he had cribbed it off of one of his clients but it was so good that he had added it to his bag of treatment tools.

The lens was as such The people of the world can be very loosely divided into two groups: Those who have an ethnic background and those who dont.

Ethnic people are people of exotic origin, or at least, an origin considered exotic in the Global North. If were being blunt, it would be anyone who does not have roots in the grey, northern parts of Europe.

So, we are talking about people of Mediterranean origin or east and south Asian origin or African origin or, indeed, originate anywhere that isnt the cold, rocky slopes of the parts of Europe where potatoes seasoned with salt and pepper are considered fancy eating.