It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.
We always think of borders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It's something you have in common, literally.
I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
So many people are of mixed heritage; everyone is from somewhere else.
People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.
Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.
Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
'Yellow Face' marks my summation of multiculturalism.
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