went to school in what babaji calls my european persona. javed questioned the relationship between a beret and a trenchcoat, and z took one look at me and started laughing, but neither of these are the desired effect: the point is simply this that i am trying to live up to my passport. as canadians we are told over and over that we are actually very multicultural and pluralistic, but in the real world things are far more conformist. when was the last time you saw the chinese exchange student wearing traditional chinese clothes? yeah, that's my point. ethnic heritage is to be valued but not practiced; when it /is/ practiced, it is done so as something 'foreign' to be brought out on special occasions. canadians should either stop talking about their (our) fruit-cake of a society or live up to it. be patriotic. our home and native land.
so. yesterday it was black jeans, beret, and trenchcoat; next week it might be turban and robes. join the revolution or be left behind.
: the point though is when so doing, not to do so as a 'costume'.
