Caramel bear & Brown girl

I remember queueing up for a theme park ride as a kid, and the boy in front of me said I should 'go back to my own country, go back to China'.

He was so wrong.

It's interesting how people have thought my brother had a different Dad to me- because his skin tone is so much lighter than mine.

I grew up being the more 'tanned' one, and not seeing it any different to my friends. I think it took for me to move to London a year ago, somewhere so multi-cultural (if you like that phrase), for background and skin tone to be a subject of interest and where it was pointed out in a positive way.

And even then, we still experience racial bias from our peers. I do my best to point out the ignorant assumptions- most of the time, they link with safety.

This article hits home a little, specifying in the representation of race in video media.

I don't watch enough television to comment, yet I think it shows enough impact our 'colour' plays into representing who we really are.

How to, get people to dislike you

I've read the following. I'm sure some of these pointers encompass somebodies true personality traits.

What if you feel your personal best, whilst behaving like the above?

Sometimes we like assholes, because they are good assholes.

Liminality

'Liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning "a threshold"^[1]) is a psychological, neurological, or metaphysical subjective state, conscious or unconscious, of being on the "threshold" of or between two different existential planes, as defined in neurological psychology (a "liminal state") and in the anthropological theories of ritual by such writers as Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner.^[2]

As developed by van Gennep (and later Turner), the term is used to “refer to in-between situations and conditions that are characterized by the dislocation of established structures, the reversal of hierarchies, and uncertainty regarding the continuity of tradition and future outcomes”.^[3] Although initially developed as a means to analyze the middle stage in ritual passages, it is “now considered by some to be a master concept in the social and political sciences writ large”.^[4] In this sense, it is very useful when studying “events or situations that involve the dissolution of order, but which are also formative of institutions and structures.”^[5]

The term has passed into broad popular usage, and arguably at least 'the very wide extension of the notion of liminality had the unfortunate consequence of undermining its initial power'.^[6] As an anthropological concept, liminality can be applied to “a variety of concrete problems of transformation in the historical, social, and political world”.^[7] It is particularly useful as a tool for analyzing both contemporary events and problems, and for analyzing and comparing various historical periods.^[8]'