
Cambridge, 2014. Flickr/Trojan-Llama. Some rights reserved.‘Sheffield’, he echoed with a snort, when I said where I was from.
Someone tried to rescue him, ‘People can’t help where they come from.’
‘They can move,’ he answered.
In votes for Brexit, and in Trump, we are hearing an indivisible claim for a national, ethnic, gender and class identity. But the claim emerges not from pride, but from shame.

Cambridge, 2014. Flickr/Trojan-Llama. Some rights reserved.‘Sheffield’, he echoed with a snort, when I said where I was from.
Someone tried to rescue him, ‘People can’t help where they come from.’
‘They can move,’ he answered.