Thread by @ZoeJardiniere

I was born in France & grew up in the UK in a multilingual household. I still have close family living in France & Greece. My mother is Greek & I have dual Greek-British nationality. My grandma is German.

Of course I'm putting European on the census. What else would I be?

My kind of mixed multilingual family is completely normal all over the world. In the EU, free movement has allowed more people to mix in these wonderful ways more easily.

It's been said before, but Brits & Anglos as a whole worldwide miss out on so much by cutting themselves off

My ability to take pride in my heritage throughout my life, to never endure more than some dumb teasing from Anglo kids at school about it, the fact that it was universally considered good & important that I spoke my mother tongue fluently, are all thanks to being European...

So many mixed-heritage friends of mine were never taught their parent's mother tongue, or never stuck to learning it because they felt a need to "prove" themselves British. Why? Because their mixed heritage is from Africa, Asia, etc. They faced racism instead of praise like me.

So while I am proud and so very grateful (especially since Brexit, since I remain an EU citizen) for my mixed up family, I have to recognise I have an extremely privileged experience of being mixed.

While we claim our Europeanness on the census or anywhere we must remember that.