German/South African | Spanish
My Mum is half German and half South African. My biological Dad is Spanish and my other Dad is Dominican. I have been asked where I am from, I felt happy because it means people are interested in finding out things about others. I reply by explaining where my parents are from but that I've lived in the UK since I was 2 years old.
I would like to be a photographer when I grow up because I really enjoy looking at things around me and capturing it. I also enjoy being creative with the photos I take by editing them. I do see a variety of backgrounds on TV or social media, but I still feel like there is a certain look or image that is portrayed as ‘beautiful’.
I often eat food from our cultures. For example, my Dad likes to cook Caribbean dishes such as curry goat or oxtail. I visit Spain once a year and South Africa every few years to visit family. I really love trying all the different foods. My absolute favourite thing to eat is Spanish 'churros con chocolate', and I love a South African barbeque.
I asked my Mum; do you consider yourself more South African or more German? My Mum told me ‘I am both and at the same time neither. Wherever I go, I am seen as a foreigner. When I lived in South Africa, I was never fully considered 'one of them' and obviously I don't look German. I definitely feel more South African than German though and I guess that is due to having lived there, whereas I've never lived in Germany’.
I asked my Dad; do you consider yourself more British than Dominican because you were born here? He replied ‘I identify with a British way of life, but value Dominican cultural values and strength of family unity’.