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English video

Taiye Selasi is a woman who begins by talking about how she is always defined as a multinational
woman, although she said that she did not share that idea, she said that a country or territory was
not as constant as we thought, because these types of territories can be born , destroy, disappear
or be reduced. She shares with us an idea that said, With the question where I am from, in the
speech we can see that this is focused on our ancestry, and not on the place where a person is
born, for example in the United States, we can see that she share three steps to know where you
are local. Your rituals, knowing their culture; relationships, how you interact with these places or
countries; and restrictions, which are obstacles that do not allow you to do your rituals, like
different events like a war, or things like racism.Rituals: A ritual is a periodic invitation by a group
or society to gather around an event of a spiritual or psychological nature.

Relationships: Human relationships are physical or emotional bonds that they generate between
two or more people through forms of communication.

Restrictions: It is a limit, an impediment, a limitation of a conduct for moral obligation, denial from
one state to another, prohibition, exclusivity or patent of someone or something, limitation of the
freedom of someone or something.

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