The effect of mass migration has been the creation of radically new types
of human being: people who root themselves in ideas rather than places, in
memories as much as in material things; people who have been obliged to
define themselves -- because they are so defined by others -- by their
otherness; people in whose deepest selves strange fusions occur,
unprecedented unions between what they were and where they find themselves.
The migrant suspects reality: having experienced several ways of being, he
understands their illusory nature.
Salman RushdieImaginary
Homelands
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