SOCIETY/ CULTURE/ RACISM/ INJUSTICE

Why Is She Constantly Thought to Be Filthy and Disgusting?

She is like everyone else, except — a Creole girl

To Live in a stranger’s land is difficult, but not more than being considered a stranger.

It is a story of a girl who lives a life of a stranger in a land. She considers that land — homeland. She belongs to a mixed heritage, which this story calls Creole girl. Basically, a Creole is a mixture of European and Caribbean land, but in the story, she is not a creole but lives a life of a Creole.

She is nurturing under a society that considers her filthy and disgusting. She could enjoy life like her fellows. Someone constantly considers her filthy and disgusting.

She is unaware of her challenges.

She is a daughter of different race parents, which results in the formation of a hybrid character. As per society rules, she lives in the state of her father. She is the only daughter of her parents because their parents could not afford the societal hate anymore. She is living happily with her parents, but not mature enough to understand the reality.

Like all children, she wants to enjoy her childhood, go outside, and her mother’s land, but her parents do not allow her. She follows her parents’ orders — to live inside the home. She enjoys her home alone.

Her parents constrain her life in the four walls of the home. Very often, she visits her maternal grandparents and enjoys with her maternal mother. In the area of mother, people constantly considered her filthy and disgusting.

She is like a ball thrown over the opponent to carry on the filthy and disgusting game of cultures.

She constantly faces rejection from the societies of mother and father. Both these societies consider her a stranger living in their land. Unknowingly, she confronts the constant cultural hate in the name of filthy and disgusting.

The nation of her mother calls her White Demons and ghost. Children do not play with her because their parents allow them to play with her. She only enjoys the stories of her grandmother about fairy tales.

While the land of father calls her a White Nigger, and haunted. She has coal-black eyes with white hair. Something culturally dislocated her in both lands because of the hybridism.

She lives in a homeless home. Her life is a wobbler.

No society is willing to accept her, but she lives happily with her parents. She is unaware of her position in society — most people consider her filthy and disgusting.

She lives in her Disneyland-created by her parents for herself. Her parents provide her everything, which helps in the construction of fantasy life. She is unaware of the reality that her imaginative world is going to become a victim of societal hate.

She is enjoying her childhood.

Her world will crack soon when the clouds of innocence go down. The constructed mirrors of reality seem to break soon by society. Her parents cannot overcome the cultural barriers which reside in her future.

I see a challenging life ahead.

She did not know herself as a Creole, and the societal hate about Creole. She lives in her sandcastle. The awareness of a filthy and disgusting reality may create a challenging life for her in the future.

The lack of historical knowledge and ignorance towards culture will act as a hindrance in future development. She will take time to understand the reality of filthy and disgusting about her. The societal hate is running in the bloodstream of upcoming generations.

Being a Creole is not her fault, but she cannot stop the hatred of people. She is skinny and will remain as it is — because society does not respect her. She is not skinny by heart, but by the appearance — that made her life hell. People see her with red-haunted eyes. She is becoming disabled with life — not physically disabled, but mentally. Society considers her socially disable.

Her identity is a question mark. She lives a life of estrangement.

She could not change her reality, but maybe debunk the myths about her in the future. She is growing with a lot of questions waiting for her. Society does not accept her, but she might swallow it. There is no silver lining about the attitude of society. Rhys portrayed Antonio.

“She is not Beke like you, but she is Beke, and not like us either.” — Jean Rhys.

Her future is full of internal and external struggles, which will cause a new self. She lives in a pretending world.

“You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away, and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world…” — Rhys.

The story tells that society shapes the attitude of people. The years back, hate to race transfer the picture of society. Children are innocent, but society changed them. The societal indifference seems to remain the same in the future. It is my view about her future. Maybe she will prove my interpretations wrong. I want to say my words in Rhys’ vocabulary.

“I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers.”

Note: This story uses the vocabulary of Jean Rhys to express the position of a hybrid girl. This story not only refers to her, but addresses all the societies where racial hate is present.

I see her and easily relate her life with the Creole girl as presented in the fictional stories. Life is full of such examples.

One should not consider the other filthy and disgusting on a cultural basis. Rest is your choice.

The piece narrates the authentic story like a fictional story to secure privacy.

Is it possible to change society?

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