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Lessons from my mother about how to overcome rejection and turn it into a game

Growing up as an immigrant in the UK

Nine years, two kids, and a lifetime of experience later, here’s what I learnt

The confusion of culture shock at home or abroad can lead to discrimination

Although it’s not quite the life I imagined

Or I can think about the collective

A great way to meet the locals, but for my visitor it was something else

When the world has always been your oyster

There is far more cultural content in that ceramic vessel than just a hot beverage

A meditation for those who leave

Mealtimes equalled trauma when I was a child

Or might I instead be a 1000-year-old West Saxon? Or a medieval Spaniard?

A sad and inescapable truth

Even when they are immigrants

Unmasking toxic drinking behaviors disguised as cultural customs

Over-tourism and its fallout

Should he call a doctor? Or a cultural transcreator?

And how trying a new cereal in Sicily can change your life