Canada is one of the world's largest countries, but not one of the world's most hospitable and most welcoming countries. All her life has Esi Edugyan difficulty feeling welcome in a country she would call her own. Esi talks about how much both her and her mother have traveled to feel part of a country. With her way of writing, good choice of words and tone, she gets her point across in a good way, but at the same time in a way so that we understand the seriousness of her opinion. ” It had been a question that had defined my life, although I would not have expressed it that way at the time. For years I had traveled in search of the place I would feel most home” here you get a clear understanding of how much this means to her, as she says she has spent her whole life finding the place she feels comfortable.
Where are you from? Many people in Canada get that question. for people who have tried all their lives like Esi, this question is one of the most derogatory questions to get, since it is a desire for all people to fit in and not be different. Not only that Esi gets the question "where are you from" because she has a different appearance, maybe slightly darker skin or something completely different, this question gets many citizens in Canada. CBC has done an interview, but a number of people who, like esi, have had the same feeling of not feeling part of what they themselves call "My country". They talk about people asking if they can tell something about why they look the way they do or speak the way they do. For many, it may be a completely normal question, but for people who have tried their whole lives to find their place, this question is one of the most sensitive things you can ask. There is no doubt that both Esi and the actors in the interview are fighting for people to accept each other as we are and not how we look.
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