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Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory - M

Every country in the world is made up of different cultural groups.

 In every country, there is a variety of languages spoken, a variety of ways of being.

 In every country, there is no single human being whose appearance is representative of a homogenous everyone.

 Perhaps it is time to retire the notion of a country being made up of a single group that is one race, one language, one faith, one anything, and instead openly embrace the plural. With that, there’s the acceptance that each person is not a single identity, that they’re made up of different threads, simultaneously belonging to multiple communities.

 Enough with identity and community and country as a monolith, and let us have a school of thought that celebrates the sense of being multi- as the most natural state.

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