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Marcello
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When people ask "like... what are you? Greek? Italian?" I usually say the same thing, that I'm Iranian, then I break down the ethnic parts with which I was was raised: Assyrian, Persian, Armenian, Azeri, Black American, Nuyorican, Jew, etc., since I refuse to negate the impression all of these different human experiences have had on me on a deep level. I know people who claim Assyrian but were born in New York and raised among Blacks, Italians, Jews, Puerto Ricans,.. How can their thinking not be influenced more by their young, school and street peers who accept them, then their Assyrian family who rejects them and from whom they rebel? I tend to lean more on the idea presented by the exsitentialists who say that you are only the thing that you do at any given moment,which even questions the meaning of being a "man". One of the reasons I liked my mid-teen to mid-twenties' experiences with L.S.D. was that it made the idea of being a man and all of the sub-parts (ethnicity, religion, etc.) absolutely meaningless. It is from those experiments and the resulting experiences that I shed all of the shit with which I was raised, conditioned, brainwashed, that made me a racist, a religious supremacist, and an asshole of a male who thought being a fuckin' Neanderthal was the way a man should be. So, among my friends who think like me, we usually have the same understanding: we are what we do, not what we say we are. But with regular peope, I give the same regular answer: Iranian, Assyrian, etc., since they solely seek to know where I was born and what religion I am. A silly question that I even ask. --------------------- |
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