Flutter of the Butterfly's Wings

 

 [Photo by KPA] - Blue Morpho Butterfly 

The Butterfly Conservatory, Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens, Ontario

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I am part of an email group, and have attended meetings and social gatherings with this group in New York for a number of years. We discuss mostly socio-political issues, mostly centered around the United States, and with my contribution, Canada. A few times, I have presented the Ethiopian point of view, my idea being that the Christian country has more in common with the West than with the East.

Recently, I presented a proposition that we should support the PM of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, and his efforts to build this greater Ethiopia, in the tradition of the Ethiopian emperors, up to and including the late Emperor Haile Selassie.

One member of the group would have none of this, and my earnest efforts and my individual pursuits, from my art, to my Reclaiming Beauty (and Camera Lucida) 10+ years of documentations, stories, photographs, and views.

She accused me of "narcissism"  - imagine, a supposedly honorable member of this group stooping to name-calling. She demanded to be removed from this list, and so she has been.

I wrote about Mullarkey here, about five years ago. She's a painter, and I said about her work:

Her style is stark and bleak...

I have been called worse than a narcissist! But this has only built a thick skin, and I continue with my endeavors and ideas. Who is one "email" acquaintance to dictate my ideas and my thoughts? I have never personally met this woman, who has only recently asked to be included in the group. Late to come, first to go! Good riddance.

Those intuitive and intelligent should realize that what I say makes sense. The world is now constructed in "global" terms. A small country in the north of Africa could be the butterfly wing that starts the wave of crashes around the world.

About 70 years ago, a similar event occurred, where Italian Fascists decided that they would complete their earlier entry into Ethiopia, which was met in defeat under the now celebrated Adwa Victory, and take that land as part of their late-comers colonial swoop.

They failed again, but in a different way. Ethiopia was eventually liberated, with men from all over the country taking arms to fight this enemy. But, Haile Selassie's appeal to the impotent League of Nations (precursor to the United Nations) was ignored, and the world sided with war, with devastating effects of the Second World War.

Sometimes faith in your message is what you need, or to be more precise, what you are obligated to have. Other messengers have come up short, wrong, and even pernicious. I have a long history, both at Reclaiming Beauty, and at Camera Lucida, of siding with Truth.

Shame. 

Rotating Irritations

I have some recurring typos, which must be irritating for readers. They are mostly, if you have observed, related to my "i," "k," the comma and the single quotation. "Spell Check" doesn't catch all of them, so I use an on-screen keyboard to correct them. Sometimes, though, I press the wrong key, where, for example, "it" becomes "ot."

And sometimes I get hilarious Spell Check suggestions: "irritating" becomes "rotating" which kind of makes sense since this is all a rotating irritation!

But I am writing fast (I have other pressing projects to finish), and some of my typos are simply my neglect at proofreading. So my apologies!

The Google Conspiracy

I inadvertently deleted ALL my photos which were accessible through google. I thought my blogger photos would be ok, but wouldn't you know that they are deleted!

This is of course a blessing in disguise. We learn who's in charge!

I have fortunately almost all my photos (at least the ones I took) filed on an external drive. All the rest I can access through the World Wide Net or simply replace them with other similar ones.

This goes back as far as mid 2015.

I will have them back up shortly.

Truth in Images

From an unpublished post in January 2012:

The indomitable Kristor, frequent correspondent at the View From the Right, and now at Laura Wood's The Thinking Housewife, makes the no-nonsense response to her post Would Protectionism Have Saved Kodak?:

Film is like buggy whips. Let’s just move on, shall we?

To this comment by Roger G.:

Donald Trump said on the Sean Hannity Show yesterday that the once mighty Kodak has gone bankrupt because they didn’t get the U.S. government to protect them from Fuji. Trump argued that Fuji destroyed Kodak by selling below manufacturing costs.

I studied photography and film for four years (about 1/3 of those years were part-time, while I worked in a completely unrelated job to fund for my school).

The program was wonderfully technical. I avoided the Leftist/Marxist/Third World/Anti-Art/Anti-Beauty/Anti-west bias of many of the "art" teachers (well it was more like a bulldozer-level bias) by disappearing into the photography dark rooms, and the film editing suites, where no-one bothered me, and I could simply work on those machines (which surprisingly, few students used until the marathon rush of due assignments). This "experimentation" was vital for my education, since most of the teachers wanted us to produce some self-expression drivel, screw technique and art!

Part of the wonder for me in the dark room and while editing was the tactile aspect of working with the celluloid (film or photography). Another was seeing the chemicals magically produce an image from nothing (a blank, white piece of paper). And yet another was the challenge of fitting a puzzle, trying to put a coherent set of images together in the editing room.

Of course, some of these pleasures are possible in digital media since the digital images are is still a puzzle to fit together, but here, we are several steps away from the original images. In film, we see them viscerally on the film strip. We can touch the strip, turn it upside down, pass it through the editing board, cut it here or there, and attache various sections together to make a coherent piece. This visceral experience was especially clear around my work area, where film strips were flying everywhere, pieces were misplaced, then found, cutting boards were sometime faulty, sometimes ruining a special frame, for which I would have to improvise another. And it took time to physically maneuver all those strips around.

In the photography dark room, it was liquid (and the smell of the chemicals) that were the messy components.

Near the end of my studies, I actually developed my own films, after having learned to do the same in photography. One more step closer to the "images."

Film editing used to remind me of sewing, or embroidery, which is probably why I went into the archaic field of textile design.

So, this is what Kodak is forfeiting (well, its been going on for a while now). I don't think it is just cheap Fuji films which destroyed photography, but the attitude that the intricate, time-consuming, artistic endeavor of making films can be replaced by fast, impersonal digital technology.

I am not completely against digital technology. I think the internet, blogs, online sources, have provided incredible services. Yet, at the same time, this digital world needs to come second to the real world. What good is a "digital" relationship unless we've given up on the real one?

Fitting Puzzles
The mage in the background is a print of this

Reclaiming Beauty

I'm in the process of finding information about me (!) on the internet. No, it isn't some narcissistic activity. There is a purpose to this...

Here is what I found from the erudite, calmly informative (I could learn from that!) Tiberge at Gallia Watch, who kindly introduced my new blog when I started it back in 2013.

I have met Tiberge three times since, where we spent time together in lovely Philadelphia, chatting about blogs, Larry Auster, Laura Wood, beauty, France, and any other topic that took our fancy.

If you are responsive to aesthetics, to beauty, beauty of everything - art, music, architecture, human faces, human shapes, fashion, flowers, manners, voices, and if you feel that today's vulgar and narcissistic counter-culture has arrogantly abandoned the individuality, the inner questioning that are essential for beauty, in favor of insolent, indolent conformity, a conformity that tries to pass itself off as "original" or "creative" or "personal", when in fact it is parasitic, imitative, and repellent - worse, it is deliberately repellent, then you experience, as I do, a vague feeling of nausea in this repellent age we're living in. When a young man, who might have been good-looking in another era, makes your sandwich while you watch in disgust, his arms covered with tattoos, rhinestone earrings clamped on his ears, baggy pants slipping down almost to his thighs; when your waitress, who could be pretty if she valued prettiness, arrives squeezed into a mini skirt, her ears studded with nails, not to mention her nose, and her head shaven to boot, to take your order (as if one could eat after being served by such a creature), then you know you are living in the Age of Repellence. When you are forced to listen to the sounds of someone else's pygmy culture, diligently and diabolically piped through the loud speakers of every store, every coffee shop, every restaurant, every waiting room, everywhere, with no recourse to complain, no power to oppose the shrieking pygmies that rule over us and destroy our peace, then you just stay home.

Remember when a coffee shop conjured up visions of a comfortable chat with friends or a chance to read a good book over a good cup of espresso? Not any more. Starbuck's is torture. Every shop is torture. The sights and sounds are vomitous, repellent, deliberately repellent.

Of course I am speaking of an urban area that is run by "minorities" and elitist leftists. You may see a better side of things where you are.

Kidist Paulos Asrat is the administrator of Reclaiming Beauty, where she analyzes and criticizes the anti-beauty agenda of today's young, (mostly) white women. Of course she denounces the obvious outrages of the type I described above, but she also compares the influential styles of the past with those of today. In a recent post she compared Vogue magazine of the 50's with recent issues. And even more recently she discussed the unfortunate changes made to certain great French perfumes, such as Guerlain's La Petite Robe Noire (The Little Black Dress).

Her insights and opinions won the approval of the late Lawrence Auster who often posted her comments. Recently, Toronto-based Kidist made a trip to New York, with a detour to Springfield, Pennsylvania to visit Lawrence's grave site, where she took several photos. Those of you who followed his blog and his painful last weeks, may find this post of interest.

She is also a great admirer of the New York Public Library, a structure that leaves one breathless, a testimony to the intelligence, taste and vision that prevailed in more civilized times in the United States. And of The Cloisters, in upper Manhattan, a place of rare beauty, another stunning testimony to the American drive for excellence and to the generosity and erudition of men, such as John D. Rockefeller, Jr., often despised for their wealth, yet they poured their money and knowledge into the reconstruction of an extraordinary medieval-style complex of buildings housing priceless treasures, including the Unicorn Tapestries. They did this out of love for art and a desire to educate and elevate the public's understanding. The Cloisters is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Read more about her Ethiopian origins here, where she provides several links to Lawrence Auster's VFR. I should add that she is fluent in French having studied French in England. (Click her resumé at the top right of her homepage.)

Kidist and I met once, at Lawrence Auster's December dinner in 2011, but we did not really have a chance to speak. I'm very sorry I missed her when she came to Springfield a couple of weeks ago, but she was here and gone so quickly, before I even knew. So hopefully next time…

Top, the "blue hour" in Paris, between day and night. Borrowed from her website.

Below, from the Unicorn Tapestries at The Cloisters.

Orthospherian Re-Welcome, the Austerian School, and a Website Meant to be Read

Jonah and the Whale
Image from the Touchstone 2017 Calendar

The writers and commentators at The Orthosphere have been giving us their unique and important views on the state of the world for a few years now. I have occasionally commented on their posts and they have a link to Reclaiming Beauty on their website.

I recently commented on their post: The Ultimate Target of Diversity In the latest issue of Touchstone, SM Hutchens identifies the ultimate target of the Social Justice Warriors

My comment was in response to Bruce's thoughts:

Bruce:

Hutchens is terrific (he was kind enough to correspond with me many years ago about an article he wrote on theology). Even so I don’t think your conclusion is correct. They hate us because in the current narrative we “victimized” them.

KPA:

Yes, of course, it is the “humiliation” of the “colonized.” The colonizer is evil. He showed them their weakness, and dared to find the solution by his way, his method, his culture his (the) civilization. It isn’t just the regular victimized (oppressed) who hate the White Man, it is everyone who isn’t white.These days, the Chinese – mainland and “westernized,” who one would have thought would be allies of this White Man – are viciously attacking this white man because he has shown them that he is better than them.

Hutchens has beautifully, and with great insight, shown us the link between spirituality (Christianity) and hatred of any who follow or attempt to follow perfection through Jesus’ perfection. A perfect housewife is hated. Rather a woman leave her home and lives as a masculine in a masculine world. A perfect artist is hated (look at the abomination of perfection in art these days where artists have finally shown clearly that they are following the devil’s direction). A perfect man is hated where young boys and men are being pulled into homosexuality or effeminate ways and made to hate this man. And so on.

Our enemies have now been emboldened into telling us that truth that our battle is a spiritual one. That is because they appear to be winning. But who is more conceited than the devil? Of course it is still, and always, God’s world.

And a little further down.

Thomas F. Bertonneau:

Let me be the first to welcome Kidist to our conversation.

P.S. – Kidist is a kind of “neighbor” of mine, being a Torontonian, sight of whom the curvature of the Earth only just prevents an Oswegonian from seeing directly. But I sense her like-mindedness from across the lake…

Kristor:

And let me be the second. It’s good to have you here, Kidist.

Kidist Paulos Asrat:

Thank you, dear friends for your kind (re)welcome. I am still very active (whether online or off) as a champion of western civilization and “beauty” and just received a new role – promoter of the Austerian View [KPA - actually Kristor said The Auterian School] – as Kristor said in an email regarding my comment registration. What an honorable title!

Please visit my new website where I’ve now added “The Society for the Reclamation of Western Beauty.” It is still a work in progress but I hope to make it bigger than web musings, and into a full-fledged revolution!

http://societyforreclaimingwesternbeauty.blogspot.ca/p/a-beauty-movement.html

As I said to another friend in an email that I had originally re-named my website's address to make it less accessible on the web. But this is a website which I had always intended to be read by the public.

And there is always the "Society" which can hold closed discussions, where we can plan our revolution!

Auster/Asrat Interaction: Saving the West and Other Urgent Matters

In my last post, I wrote of my first posted interaction in November 6, 2008 with Larry Auster's View From the Right. I did a search at VFR's site to see if I was correct, and in fact, my first posted comment was as an anonymous KPA, in the article Minority Female Republicans For Diversity, written on May 9th, 2006. That is a couple of years earlier than what I thought.

Here is what I wrote in 2006 as KPA, commenting on the article:

KPA writes:

Mr. Auster,

I admire your fairness and generosity towards all types of people. Those who may have called you racist are using the term erroneously. Racial pride does not equal racist.

I had noticed your staunch support for Hirsi Ali, when I could see months before that she had no intention to really help the Netherlands, but was focused on her own status as female, Muslim (and I suppose black too).

Malkin seems also intent on vociferously asserting herself. I always find that such passionate self-justification (maybe to feel a part of the rest) is a symptom of insecurity and dare I say, inferiority.

Perhaps all these non-white women need to do is to have a certain humility. To agree and accept the fact that America was founded by other white nations. That a Philippino or a West African population could never have created what the British did.

And if that becomes too difficult, then stay away from public life, rather than eventually become hypocrites.

Although, one final thing that I may add. Race is war in a sense. Each one wants supremacy over the other. Rice may very well envision a land full of powerful blacks, and Malkin may lapse at times into a vision of a world of powerful browns.

Well, we certainly are headed for interesting times!

I commented on this interaction, again at VFR, which I wrote on June 19, 2012:

It was fun to go through your search engine to find my first emails to you. I used my initials KPA then, and I think I identified myself as being from Canada since the beginning.

From what I can find, my first email to you was on May 9, 2006. The thread was on how nonwhites, even the “conservative” ones, push for the advancement of nonwhites at the expense of whites, as well as on Hirsi Ali, Islam, Western culture, gender, and what I thought were race “wars.” Quite a post! And I declared myself your ally!

My second comment, in the entry, “The enemy is not jihad,” deals with more pressing and tangible material, namely: Islam’s incursions into Western society, from cultural strongholds to actual preparations for jihad. This was in September 2006. I am surprised that I understood (I think) the problem so well so far back, when few people were talking or writing about the reality of Islam.

It is interesting that Laura Wood, in her first email to you, was also concerned about religion (or the loss of Christianity).

It seems that spiritual and religious matters are at the forefront of the West’s problems, and the decline of religion makes it easier to dismantle the civilization.

Larry added the article I had written for VFR, Christian Tolerence, Islamic Jihad:

Also see the article Kidist wrote for VFR in 2007 (when she still was ID’d as “KPA”), in which she told how the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia’s tolerance toward its Muslim minority in the 16th century enabled the Muslims to launch a jihad.

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Addendum: The View From the Right search engine, in the right margin of the VFR website provides shortcuts to the posted articles.
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Auster/Asrat Interaction And Saving the West

Below is my first posted interaction with Larry Auster, at View From the Right. The full discussion can be viewed here (with comments by other View From the Right readers).

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Kidist Paulos Asrat, a woman of Ethiopian origin who has spent most of her life in the West, writes:

In the entry on Proposition 8 being approved in California with minority votes, you wrote:

Warning to naive conservatives: this does not mean that we can depend on “socially conservative” minorities to save our culture. We, the white majority, have to save our culture. Minority individuals may be of help, but the minority groups as a whole are on the left and will not be on our side.

You are right. I grew up mostly in England and France (that was the nature of the exile my family had to take to avoid the massacre of the Communist dictator). My best friends growing up were French and English (I have a great love for England—especially Kent, where I went to boarding school). I had very little to do with Ethiopians, except what we got at home. Very few Ethiopians went to England or France—most went to Canada or the U.S. Growing up there doesn’t necessarily make one a non-leftist, but I have an innate attachment to these countries, and of course the West (much more so than to Ethiopia.) My uniqueness was in our isolation (although I never felt isolated) from Ethiopian culture, something which those living in Canada or the U.S. never experienced.

So, now living in Canada, it is with great shock that I realized all my Ethiopian relatives (and there are many of them in Canada and in the U.S.) are decisively leftists, except maybe one. And that their attachment to Canada or the U.S. was purely opportunistic. And even their children who grew up here at some point will complain that this isn’t really their home, or that they are being discriminated against, or they believe in the leftist programs like subsidized housing (for all those poor immigrants), or they question the truth behind 9/11, or slide in the superiority of Muslim culture in discussions, or they have a lingering scorn for Western culture.

I said a few times, in quite large company, that the majority of Ethiopians should just go back, since they are so unhappy here and are basically recreating an “exiled Ethiopia” in the snow and the cold. It didn’t go very well. But it’s true, better in a country where you feel at home, even if it means a lower standard of life. Plus, just as these people suddenly picked up and came out West, some with nothing on their backs, how much easier is it to just pack up and go back now that many have prospered?

The big surprise is that the group that I was born into, the Amhara, were the leaders of Ethiopia throughout the centuries. Even now, although another group is running the country (a Tigre, also from the north), he has the Amhara running the government for him. So, the Amhara should instinctively know about leadership, and how countries are run by the strong and the able, and if a weak group comes along, how detrimental it is to the nation as a whole. In fact, the Amhara lived by this strict strategy for centuries. But a few in the 50s and 60s, after being “educated” and “liberalized” (mostly, ironically in the U.S.) decided that equality of tribes was the most important thing. Thus Ethiopian leftists were born. And then came the Communist dictator Mengistu Hailemariam in the 70s (himself an unknown hybrid).

You are right in that if such a strong and confident minority group cannot see through leftist groups, and in fact hides behind them and even joins them, then who will?

LA replies:

I was so impressed by your e-mail, so interested to hear these personal facts about your background. What a strange world we live in. Because of Communists taking over your country decades ago, you grew of age in England, and then ended up in Canada, where you found that your own relatives were on the left and hostile to the very country that had provided them refuge from those Communists. And you, an Ethiopian by birth, found yourself identifying with the countries that were really the only countries you knew, while your relatives absorbed, or perhaps brought with them, the typical leftist minority alienation against those countries.

How can we understand the disorder of human existence, without seeing that it is somehow a distortion of God’s order?

Kidist replies:

Yes, it is a little mystical.

But, I am actually an optimist by nature. I think part of my “mission,” although I am not making it part of my life’s plan, only putting it in where it is obviously asked for, is to tell my relatives that their best bet is their own country.

I also think, after a long study of Ethiopian art and culture (as an outsider!!) that the Amhara have always identified with Western culture—I see this in the religious art, in the development of the alphabet, in the aesthetics of the people, in the great Emperor Haile Selassie, in the political and social organization of the Amhara (always thwarted by more aggressive southern tribes and envious northern ones), and even in the very leftism that the Amhara elite adopted! There is something in the “brain chemistry” that understands Western culture and thought. So I would say that the Amhara are the most Western of the Africans. So my association isn’t so strange, I think.

Finally, I think in a strange way I also bring these insights, more intuitive than intellectual at the moment, to the West. I can see how a confident country gets destroyed (almost) because of the false gods of leftism, how Islam can (almost) destroy a country unwilling to see its evil, how it takes a long time for people to realize their deathly (almost) mistakes. I have a lot of faith in the Amhara. I have a lot of faith in the West as well.

Plus I love the West. I have studied under it—the music, the art, not just studied them but practiced them as well. I am a part of it. I have never met an immigrant who has passed my rigorous criteria for being part of the West. It is a tough call, and your skepticism about true minority support of Western civilization is well-founded.

Kidist writes:

As I re-read my last email to you, where I wrote: “I think part of my ‘mission,’ although I am not making it part of my life’s plan, only putting it where it is obviously asked for, is to tell my relatives that their best bet is their own country,” it sounds as if I’m evading the issue.

Not at all. Even a quiet word of “Well, there is always going back” resonates, as shown by feedback I get months later. Also, I am not going to hold slogans saying, “Go back home,” but will consistently and continuously repeat my position in social and casual environments. Also, my general behavior and interpretation of things shows people my position. To be big-hearted about it, I just think that minority immigrants (and their off-spring) will be happier where they came from. I can see generations of discontent, bitter people otherwise. So, I’m saying this for THEIR benefit.

Finally, I am actually much more vocal about immigration, which is probably the more controlable factor.

LA replies:

I thank you again for this contribution to our discussion, and I want to add something. What is it that made it possible for you to see clearly this important truth about most non-Western immigrants’ lack of fit in the West—this truth that most contemporary white Westerners do not see? It is that for you, the West is not an abstraction. It’s not an idea of freedom. It’s an actual cultural tradition and way of being, which you yourself loved and chose to join. Furthermore, it’s not just the West that you see in real, concrete terms, but the cultures of the immigrants. They also are not abstractions but real people with real cultures and real ways of being. Therefore you understand that these two cultural substances, the West and the respective immigrant cultures, are distinct from each other and cannot happily co-exist in the same society.

Westerners cannot see this basic, obvious truth, because the modern Western mind only allows for universalist abstractions. In the name of the “equal dignity of all human beings,” liberalism strips away our actual humanity.

Kidist replies:

You say:

It is that for you, the West is not an abstraction. It’s not an idea of freedom. It’s an actual cultural tradition and way of being, which you yourself loved and chose to join. Furthermore, it’s not just the West that you see in real, concrete terms, but the cultures of the immigrants. They also are not abstractions but real people with real cultures and real ways of being.

That’s exactly right. Why is it so hard to see that? :-)

Sage McLaughlin writes:

I’d be gilding the lily by adding anything to your fascinating discussion with Kidist. I just thought you should hear that it is edifying reading, and illustrates why VFR is a treasure (if I may be so, um, sycophantic…).

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Computer Glitch

I am working on my image postings. It looks like I have reached my bandwidth limit for image posting. I have subscribed to another image posting site, and will update all those "empty" images as soon as I can.
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Computer Glitch

I am working on my image postings. It looks like I have reached my bandwidth limit for image posting. I have subscribed to another image posting site, and will update all those "empty" images as soon as I can.
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Response to Emails

I'm getting nasty emails and comments (which I immediately delete) calling me racist, homophobe etc.

I don't mind being called a homophobe. The definition of homophobe (or homophobia) according to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary is:

irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals

The word that best describes my reaction is "aversion to." That is exactly right: I have an aversion to homosexuals and homosexuality.

So, I don't mind, and I even welcome, being called a homophobe. Racist is another thing. It somehow goes to a deeper core. I don't have and aversion to, and irrational fear of, or a hatred of other races.

The online dictionary at Dictionary.com defines racist thus:

The belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others

Yes, there are racial differences. Everyone know that. Even those who cry "racist" at any occasion.

And yes, some races have accomplished more than others. Everyone accepts that. Even those who cry "racist" at any occasion.

But, I don't believe that any race is morally, or spiritually, superior that others.

This is hot button issue, and people like Larry Auster have spent years unraveling the difficult and volatile race-relations in America. But even Larry didn't believe in the superiority of one race over another.

My regular (now irregular) posts on Asians is not so much how inferior they are to whites, but how their accomplishments are inferior to whites.

Probably Asians will feel comfortable and at home in their own homelands. That is why at some point I was advocating a peaceful return of Asians (first, second, tenth generation) back to Korea, China and the Philipines and India. Race and culture is a strong, lingering element of the human psyche. Third generation Asians do not forget their Asian ancestry! They do not feel "at home" in the white culture of America and Canada. They subtly and earnestly maintain aspects of their ancestral culture, even if they have never been in their ancestral lands.

Look at Vera Wang, and her whole array of red wedding dresses - inspired by the red wedding gowns of her Chinese background. Wang was born and brought up in the United States. She is, for all purposes, an American. Yet, these many years on, she still cannot fully and wholeheartedly relate to the American, white culture.


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