First blog

This is my very first blog.

I am still wondering what kind of things I wish to share on my blog.

One issue that really engages me is the concept of the transcultural. I myself can gladly identify myself of being a transcultural product in itself:

Take a look at my name - my name hides the fact that I am British, emphasizes my Spanish descent, although conceals my family coming from a Spanish-Algerian diaspora dating back to the 18 th century, meaning that they were French, technically speaking.

And my first name, being French, doesn´t really help my English classes in a Ullevål Skole in 1975, where I was forced to learn English, which was my maternal language, although transmitted through a Norwegian mother! ( Her mother grew up in United States )

So if I am to find some kind of category to feel comfortable in, I suggest :

Transcultural Product

So what is this ´transcultural product´?

I can not be separated from my body, which has absorbed all forms it has passed through. I can not accept a concept of my culture being homogenic, because it is not, and will never be. Here are some good points on transculturality to proceed from:

"Conceptions of transculturality aims for a multi-meshed and inclusive, not separatist and exclusive, understanding og culture"

"Conceptions of culture are operative concepts. Our understanding of culture is an active factor in our cultural life."...

"...the individuals discovery and acceptance of their transcultural constitution is a condition for coming to terms with societal transculturality"

(Featherstone and Lash 1999)