Embracing otherness. When I first heard this theme, I thought, well, embracing otherness is embracing mylf. And the journey to that place of understanding and acceptance has been an interesting one for me, and it's given me an insight into the whole notion of lf, which I think is worth sharing with you today.
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抗疫议论文>空气炸锅怎么烤鸡翅We each have a lf, but I don't think that we're born with one. You know how newborn babies believe they're part of everything; they're not parate? Well that fundamental n of oneness is lost on us very quickly. It's like that initial stage is over -- oneness: infancy, unformed, primitive. It's no longer valid or real. What is real is parateness, and at some point in early babyhood, the idea of lf starts to form. Our little portion of oneness is given a name, is told all kinds of things about itlf, and the details, opinions and ideas become facts, which go towards building ourlves, our identity. And that lf becomes the vehicle for navigating our social world. But the lf is a projection bad on other people's projections. Is it who we really are? Or who we really want to be, or should be?
So this whole interaction with lf and identity was a very difficult one for me growing up. The lf that I attempted to take out into the world was rejected over and over again. And my panic at not having a lf that fit and the confusion that came from my lf being rejected, created anxiety, shame and hopelessness, which kind of defined me for a long time. But in retrospect, the destruction of my lf was so repetitive that I started to e a pattern. The lf changed, got affected, broken, destroyed, but another one would evolve -- sometimes stronger, sometimes hateful, sometimes not wanting to be there at all. The lf was not constant. And how many times would my lf have to die before I realized that it was never alive in the first place?
孝亲I grew up on the coast of England in the '70s. My dad is white from Cornwall, and my mom is black from Zimbabwe. Even the idea of us as a family was challenging to most people. But nature had its wicked way, and brown babies were born. But from about the a
ge of five, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black atheist kid in the all-white Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly, and my lf was rooting around for definition and trying to plug in. Becau the lf likes to fit, to e itlf replicated, to belong. That confirms its existence and its importance. And it is important. It has an extremely important function. Without it, we literally can't interface with others. We can't hatch plans and climb that stairway of popularity, of success. But my skin color wasn't right. My hair wasn't right. My history wasn't right. My lf became defined by otherness, which meant that, in that social world, I didn't really exist. And I was "other" before being anything el -- even before being a girl. I was a noticeable nobody.
Another world was opening up around this time: performance and dancing. That nagging dread of lf-hood didn't exist when I was dancing. I'd literally lo mylf. And I was a really good dancer. I would put all my emotional 表达 into my dancing . I could be in the movement in a way that I wasn't able to be in my real life, in mylf.
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一天一个好故事And at 16, I stumbled across another opportunity, and I earned my first acting role in a film. I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional lf could actually plug in to another lf, not my own, and it felt so good. It was the first time that I existed inside a fully-functioning lf -- one that I controlled, that I steered, that I gave life to. But the shooting day would end, and I'd return to my gnarly, awkward lf.反间谍手抄报
By 19, I was a fully-fledged movie actor, but still arching for definition. I applied to read anthropology at university. Dr. Phyllis Lee gave me my interview, and she asked me, "How would you define race?" Well, I thought I had the answer to that one, and I said, "Skin color." "So biology, genetics?" she said. "Becau, Thandie, that's not accurate. Becau there's actually more genetic difference between a black Kenyan and a black Ugandan than there is between a black Kenyan and, say, a white Norwegian. Becau w
e all stem from Africa. So in Africa, there's been more time to create genetic diversity." In other words, race has no basis in biological or scientific fact. On the one hand, result. Right? On the other hand, my definition of lf just lost a huge chunk of its credibility. But what was credible, what is biological and scientific fact, is that we all stem from Africa -- in fact, from a woman called Mitochondrial Eve who lived 160,000 years ago. And race is an illegitimate concept which our lves have created bad on fear and ignorance.
