Go Back Where You Came From…
are the words I have heard again, recently.
And during this pandemic, while all of us really can’t go anywhere, and would probably prefer to be somewhere other than where we actually are at the moment…this is a very painful thing to hear.
It was followed by several other insults, but I didn’t back down. I stood up.
And it didn’t make me feel better. It didn’t make me feel worse, either.
What was said can not be unsaid. And it is just another tile on the big wall that stands between the culture I am in and the culture I am from.
Some places in the World are more accepting of foreigners. Those places are usually not the ones that consider themselves superior. So there is an inferiority complex, and a tendency for superiority, that drives both sides equally.
And both sides are just people. That is all that it is. It doesn’t define me, where I am from. Neither does it define me where I am now.
I have reached that point in my life, where I can be unbothered by such discriminations. Only because I now know, that people are the same everywhere.
It just happens to be that situations of crisis reveal people's true colors. And we are learning a lot about each other now.
Being indoors mostly, we are getting to know our neighbours, even if from a distance.
We are learning about the world’s politics more.
We are getting a very pricey lesson in humanity in general.
And COVID is our teacher.
I would suggest we take notes this time, so we don’t have to repeat it.