Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East to West or from island to island. Even when you arrive, you're still going back and forth; your children are going round and round. There's no proper term for it - original sin seems too harsh; maybe original trauma would be better.
Zadie SmithWriting is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
Zadie SmithGreeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
Zadie SmithIt's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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