First and second generation immigrants
A poem by Nadami Chandramohan

- two cultures = people from two countries are “between the chairs” don´t feel at home in one country
- consider themselves as foreigners = they are considered as foreigners
- She = three
- The roots (parent´s home country) are often not visible, but they are indispensible for the tree´s life
- Leaves = visible, can fall down, change their colour
- She says that although she tries to keep up her image (adapt to the British way of life) sometimes her “true colour”
Shows = so people only rarely recagnize her for who she really is = she tries to conceal her culturae identity her ethnicity (colour)
- she can neither identify with her schoolmates nor with the family
=she feels foreign and pretends to be s.b she is not (seh has two different personas)


her message

She wants to be accepted and free. She demands freedom from the conflicting pressures she is exposed to and wants to be herself.