僕は、香港の所属じゃない、世界に所属している！

boku ha, hon kon no shozoku janai, sekai ni shozoku shite iru.

boku ha (wa), hon kon ni shozoku shite nai, sekai kara da.

僕は、香港に所属してない、世界からだ。

oder

“Wir sind alle globale Bürger” meaning “We be all global citizens”

Hopefully it’ll be in French by the end of this year. Perhaps in Italian as well? Since they speak it in Italy. But perhaps I should also learn to write it in Malay and Tamil since I’m Singaporean by nationality.

[From the Consolations of Phil. book.] What the Greeks referred to as \”human flourishing.\” When asked where he was from, Socrates didn\’t say \”from Athens\”, but instead answered, \”from the world\”. We be all global citizens… maybe you can rephrase that in Japanese and use that answer when you go to Japan

So perhaps when you go to Lausanne and elsewhere, you could use that too. ;)

On a more constructive note, I think that maybe the concept of belonging limits us by attempting to give us a general, shorthand definition of who we are. Being overseas forces us to give that concept up, but a better question might be whether it was even a valid thing to label ourselves with in the first place. I mean, what does ‘Singaporean’ mean? In labelling people using their country, might we also be overlooking their uniqueness as a person by focussing on something that, ultimately, does not reveal very much about them?