I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.
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I think mine's such a mish-mash now: I get criticised for sounding like a Yank when I come home, and everybody thinks I'm Australian when I'm in America.
People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of it off.
Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.
To this day, I get very nervous coming back into my own country.
I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it.
Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.
Perhaps I'm just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers.
When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.
You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.