As a first-generation immigrant from Malaysia, London-based performer Vera Chok struggled to find a place for herself in the UK. But she made a home out of the people around her. (via CNNstyle)
At Christmas, I was on stage in London, performing in Philip Pullman's"Grimm Tales" as a working mum in a middle-class English home, welcoming extended family and struggling to connect with her biological kin. I felt alien for much of that season.
One controlled my access to food, shelter and information, and the other could detain me indefinitely if it thought that I was stepping out of line. It took me a long time to separate my feelings for my family from my presumptions about Malaysians. I crave Malaysian sounds, sights and smells, but I no longer possess a Malaysian passport.
Instead, I adopt the somewhat basic term"yellow", on the basis that while we can't ever know someone's race, we do assess their skin color. Yellow people are often held apart from other, more oppressed people of color, deemed too white and privileged -- for example, in"Crazy Rich Asians," the Hollywood rom-com shows socialite Chinese-Singaporeans galloping through cash -- to require space or attention.My worth is always held in relation to other marginalized groups.
My cousin and his wife allow me -- Westernized, bolshie, artist me -- to spend time with their impressionable young children.I do not believe that socially constructed labels play a part in my bonds. These remarkable individuals actively choose to hold me close.The list goes on. I'm so lucky. I do not believe that socially constructed labels play a part in my bonds to them. These remarkable individuals I know actively choose to hold me close.
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