GRIOTS REPUBLIC - An Urban Black Travel Mag - Jan 2016

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the weak justifications once offered in order to keep our own parents out of the country. However, there are also many of us making our own plans to leave out of choice. One of the advantages of being in Europe is the Schengen Agreement. Back in 1995, an agreement came into full effect that created an essentially borderless state within mainland Europe. People within the Schengen Area became free to travel between countries without border controls or passport checks. While unsurprisingly the United Kingdom has opted out, travelling between here and the rest of Europe is more or less painless anyway, and once you’re over there further travel is seamless. For many of us, once we get over the fear of being racially abused in foreign languages, our globetrotting dreams begin with Europe. We refresh our high school level French, German, or Spanish, book our budget flights and set off. Most of our parents never travelled anywhere but “back home”, so for once we are not the children or grandchildren of immigrants trying to carve out an identity from a tangle of cultures, nor are we the awkward Westerners temporarily lodged in our ancestral land for a Christmas or summer. In these previously uncharted territories, we are tourists! Real tourists with cameras, and maps, and hotel bookings instead of mattresses on the floors of extended relatives. What an upgrade! While the privilege that comes with a burgundy passport will take you anywhere, many of us still have our failsafe tucked away in a drawer somewhere else. The fact is that while you may be British, you are not white and you will never be allowed to forget that. “So where are you from?” “London.” “No, where are you from, really?" This exchange is so common that many of us run through it on autopilot. With our “real” heritage never far from anyone’s mind, it makes sense that as soon as we were old
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