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La Herida Colonial: How Becoming an Immigrant Revealed My Ever-Open Colonial Wound
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La Herida Colonial: How Becoming an Immigrant Revealed My Ever-Open Colonial Wound

I’m happy about how the job interview is going. Of course, they don’t offer me a contract; it is a freelance thing, which is just fine. I’m ready to leave, but just before getting up the older white man looks at me and asks if I can write in Portuguese, and not in ‘Brazilian’. He even adds, ‘You Brazilians with these gerunds are killing the language.’ And laughs…

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