I’m Not

What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?

The UK has did good things and bad like any other country. I’m no more proud to be British than I would be to be any other race.

My race is humanity and my nationality is Citizen of the World. England is a description of where I was born and my language Nothing else.

White is a description that is a) wrong because we’re not white, the same as most people of colour are not the stunning ebony black that moves like shimmering polished wood, they’re a range of shades, and b) my skin is a testament to British weather.

Can’t we just be European, African, Asian, South Pacific, Oriental, American, Native Americans after all are American. Same for other indigenous peoples. Why Micro descriptions that divide? Why judge us by our weather and place of birth?

Why judge us by our gender which only really affects close personal relationships? Outside the bedroom it’s about work, shopping, kids, pets, holidays, cooking, cleaning…just day to day life.

Unlike the ancient native races the Brits haven’t got a culture of the stories passed down through the generations. We don’t revere elders. We dismiss that wisdom as behind the times.

We’re a mainly secular country, a great deal of faith was lost in the Church in world wars one and two. Why didn’t religious leaders the world over stop it? Why did they appear to support it? Because governments don’t listen to them that’s why.

As such we have no strong connection to any religious ideology, except Easter for the eggs and Christmas, for various non-religious commercial reasons.

In one way it’s sad, in another it’s right.

The only way to eradicate division and prejudice is to become one family divided by no ideology. If only that could include kindness and not buying zombie knives, beating your partner, raping women, abusing children and animals. And so on.

You see we moved from something to nothing. No rudder. No radar. No direction. We’re isolated. Losing connection to others. Saved by a very few who spend their lives trying to make a difference. Or trying to push water up hill with a fork.

This is my determined attempt to try to create one-ness. Mutual respect. I’ve never reached the audience I dream of, but that won’t stop me.

I will write about one-ness, the family of humanity, respect, tolerance, understanding, and the right for every single human being everywhere to be who they feel they are. To be comfortable in the skin genetics gave them. And the right of every animal, aquatic creature, avian, and insect, even rats and mice shouldn’t be killed unless they’re after your wiring, if they’re in nature they belong, to be treated fairly and decently, and with respect.

I look forward to the day that children are taught history and cannot stop laughing at the absurdity of prejudice, and feel utter disgust at the violence and anger in this world. I hope I’m somewhere I can hear the words “What kinds of idiots wanted to create a world like that?”

It’s what the spiritual path has brought out in me that I’m most attached to. The idea that anything living including the planet matters as much as I do. The idea that we are who we choose to be, and I wanted to choose kindly and well.

I could do with some help from certain world leaders though, that would be nice. Weapons sellers. The public in general. You.

We bloggers support each other, connect through writing, chat across the world. Despite any perceived differences we’re giving each other help, support, and a leg up as we Brits say. Think helping someone onto a horse by cupping your hands and helping to lift them if you don’t use that term.

We do this. Let’s keep doing it.

I’m off for my daily trawl around your blogs now, I follow so many it takes time to do the circuit.

Thank you for opening the window into your world and allowing me to learn about the differences that can bring us together.

As to being British? I’m not anti my country, it just only matters equally to everyone else, everywhere.

Happy connecting – keep writing!

Deb xx