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| Dear Editor, Congratulations on your new web site! It's reassuring to see that other people go through the same identity conflicts that I have gone through. The issues you explore in your essay "Where are you from?" all sound very familiar to me. I was born in France, went to high school in New Jersey, attended university in both Montreal and Moscow, Russia, and I now reside in Ontario, Canada. For a while, my family was spread out on four continents! I struggled with finding my own identity while being exposed to different cultures but now I see it as just another characteristic that contributes to who I am. I actually enjoy giving people my long story about where I'm from! It's who I am. It's impossible to put a label on me and I like it that way. I'm sending you a short essay that I wrote a couple of years ago while struggling to accept my French personality and running away from it. I was living in New Jersey at the time and I wanted to keep things simple and accept myself as an American. (But later I decided to complicate things and move to Ontario and marry a Canadian!) I hope you enjoy it! Thanks for giving us a place to share our stories. Sincerely, Virginie Raguenaud |
| I very much enjoyed your
online magazine, and I highly recommend it to the rest of
the club. It's dang near impossible to hard-copy publish something pertaining to cultural anthropology, and your magazine, "Crossing Cultures," looks like an excellect place to publish papers that nose-in-the-air academic journals should publish but won't. Junior Doughty, Anthropologist Founder of Cultural Anthropology Yahoo Club http://www.deltablues.net (Junior's Juke Joint) |
| Dear Editor, A colorful introduction
about crossing cultures! By exploring and comparing
everyday objects, this on-line I am seeking some
editions like this to pour my opinion and experience
about my own cultural diversity. Parvathi Patham. |