Being 'ethnically ambiguous', as I was pegged in the industry, meant I could audition for virtually any role. Morphing from Latina when I was dressed in red, to African American when in mustard yellow, my closet filled with fashionable frocks to make me look as racially varied as an Eighties Benetton poster.
Interpretation
Being ethnically ambiguous allows for greater versatility in roles and identities.
Meghan Markle's quote reflects on her experiences in the entertainment industry, where being perceived as 'ethnically ambiguous' enabled her to embrace a variety of roles and portray different ethnicities. This adaptability not only highlights the fluidity of racial identities but also underscores how societal perceptions can shape opportunities and self-expression in a diverse world.
In practice
During a panel discussion on representation in media, this quote could illustrate the benefits of diverse casting.
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.
When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.
Familiarity seems to breed contempt
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union
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