On having racial impostor syndrome

NPR did a great programme asking for stories from biracial people who feel they don’t belong to the ethnic minorities they are in. As a Brit with a mother from Hong Kong and a father from Beirut but who never learned Cantonese or Arabic, it was relieving to hear from others who felt similarly disconnected from their ancestors’ cultures, but also disheartening to know what I felt was real.

This is when I feel closest to my family’s culture

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Christopher Chiu-Tabet

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Autistic British know-it-all. I like gods and monsters. Bylines at @multiversitycom and @nerdypoc.

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