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I have often found it very difficult to move from a context where I am just me to race-obsessed South Africa where I forced to be White and take on all the conotations of being White. I know the rational argument of keeping ‘race’ as a way to redress past injustices but still I wish I could just be me. In the same forms I am mostly ‘other’ and sometimes I just give up..