I am a banana. In Singapore, where I used to live, this needs no explanation — it means I’m yellow on the outside but white on the inside, someone who looks ethnically Chinese but whose way of thinking is ‘western’. There are bananas all over Asia, and I daresay the world.
Clarissa Tan
Britain has many major problems – racism isn’t one of them
It has less prejudice than the countries where I’ve lived before – and more people taking offence
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