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Our Heritage, Our Identity
April 4, 2009 12:00 PM
Originally published by Merlene Emerson - Your First Choice for London
Originally published by Merlene Emerson - Your First Choice for London
Merlene attended the Mayor's Cultural Leadership Programme on 1 April at the National Portrait Gallery where the elusive subject of British identity was debated by academics and writers including Dr Roshi Naidoo and Professor Zia Sadar.
Merlene raised the questions of the invisibility of the Chinese and other minority communities from public life as well as of stereotyping by popular media.
She believes that more education on British colonial history would lead to better understanding of our shared cultural heritage.
"Only by accepting the role played by Great Britain in the past, can we then be liberated to understand Modern Britain that we see today," said Merlene.
At the same time Merlene would like to see the success of efforts to create a permanent Memorial Garden in London's Hyde Park to remember enslaved Africans and their descendents (see photo of the sculpture commissioned for the Bicentennial of the Abolition of Slavery 2007).
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