Pamela Jue . Meghana Khandekar . Rachelle Milne

23 April 2013 . Urban Fictions with Daniel Goddemeyer . SVA IXD

“[I am] not an Athenian, nor

a Greek, but a citizen of the

world.” — SOCRATES

RESEARCH

Identity is not a constant and is something that is

renegotiated on a regular basis, be it at the individual or

at the national level. This is especially problematic for

those of us living in the diaspora, we deal with so many

Modern life is lonely in many ways, but the ability of

everyone with access to a computer to find like-minded

people has meant that no one need be excluded from

social kinship . . . Vertical families are famously breaking

down in divorce, but horizontal ones are proliferating. — ANDREW SOLOMON

HORIZONTAL

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APPENDIX

Initial Research

“Japanese did not understand why the Japanese-Brazilians played loud music, failed to sort their trash perfectly and did not seem bothered about arriving late to appointments.”

“Like most Anglo-Indian women of her generation, she has lived all her life in India and has never been to Britain. But she converses only in English. At school, she said, she learned a little Latin and French and enough “kitchen Bengali” to speak to servants.”

“I shouldn't be surprised, then, by the fact that most kids and teenagers of Chinese descent I've interviewed here know little about their Chinese familial history, seem bored by the required Mandarin classes, care little for anything Chinese...and consider themselves proudly Peruvian.”

“The parents of so many exceptional children must be educated to see the identity within a perceived illness; the parents of prodigies are confronted with an identity and must be educated to recognize the prospect of illness within it.”

“Suddenly here's proof of a family trait being passed down through yet another generation. From Benjamin to Oscar and then/now to me. For my mother, an outsider -- but also a credible ‘witness,’ to declare that I've also inherited the ‘stubborn gene,’ is a pointed comment on the mystery of family mythology, the psychology of parenting and the linking of generations.”

"I could say alright this isn't a choice I made, it doesn't indicate something traumatic about my history, this is just the way that I am and I should think about being this way rather than scrutinize how I can change." — David Jay

Inspirations

Experiments