A stone in the water

The starting point is a quote by Frantz Fanon, the Martinican psychiatrist and philosopher after whom the first Italian ethnopsychiatry center in Turin was named. In his book "Black Skin, White Masks," language plays an important role in the formation of individual consciousness and awareness. Therefore, expressing oneself in a language signifies acceptance, whether voluntary or coercive, of the culture to which that language belongs, including its distrust and contempt for "the other."
Mathias translated it into Flemish after realizing it was applicable to the situation of the Walloons with the Flemish in Belgium. Kholeho translated it into Ncosa, and Serigne into Giola. Simona translated it into English to share her experiences in Great Britain; Claudia, with her French mother and Italian father, often felt like she didn't belong to any culture. Cheick immediately agreed. He told me: "I always tell the Senegalese: a stone in water, even if it stays for a hundred years, won't become a frog." Ben Salam found it very powerful and prudently translated it into Arabic. Vito knows they didn't fare any better in France.
This being the case, it seems inevitable to realize that the very mechanisms that mark the differences between us are those that reveal us as profoundly and fundamentally all belonging to a single family, the human family.