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  1. From Here - by Hannah Nicklin, Sean Arnold, and Keir Cooper
  2.  
  3. I’m proud
  4. I’m proud I live here
  5.  
  6. “I just try to be open with people. Not judgmental.”
  7.  
  8. Our nation
  9. defined by acceptance
  10.  
  11. “Because that’s what people do to me, and I don’t like it”
  12.  
  13. The army
  14. changed my perspective
  15.  
  16. The army changed the way I thought - gave me a bigger perspective.
  17.  
  18. No longer
  19. a British country.
  20.  
  21. I can understand why people would want to come here.
  22.  
  23. /////
  24.  
  25. I’m proud
  26. I’m proud I live here
  27. Our nation
  28. defined by acceptance
  29.  
  30. /////
  31.  
  32. The army
  33. changed my perspective
  34. No longer
  35. a British country.
  36.  
  37. /////
  38.  
  39. Long thin scar on the right side of his face
  40. ‘me, I’m just out of the army mate’
  41. home is friends he’s known all his life
  42. ‘Cousin’s a sniper, I was yorks regiment’
  43.  
  44. Shoulder height, fine light blue scarf covering
  45. her head, ‘Naz’ with a zed. Voice hard to sort
  46. from the noise of the streets. Black eyeliner
  47. pencil drawn - proud - proud to be British.
  48.  
  49. British is being born here - if you’re born here you’re British
  50. The town was never like this, then they started coming
  51. shops closing down, NHS failing
  52. close the borders, close the borders.
  53.  
  54. Naz walked, weighed her words. Stockton,
  55. to her, was multicultural, Britishness; tolerance.
  56. Then she hesitated. Except around the time
  57. of the 7/7 bombings, then, then it was difficult.
  58.  
  59. /////
  60.  
  61. He walked a street being torn up. Construction
  62. sounds reverberating beneath us.
  63. He stood opposite boarded up shops, jobless
  64. He said he understood though, He said he understood it.
  65.  
  66. She talked as we walked, disappearing into
  67. a thick black coat. She spoke about the insults
  68. her children suffered, how she feels like
  69. she has to represent all muslims.
  70.  
  71.  
  72. /////
  73.  
  74. I’m proud
  75. I’m proud I live here
  76. Our nation
  77. defined by acceptance
  78.  
  79. /////
  80.  
  81. The army
  82. changed my perspective
  83. No longer
  84. a British country.
  85.  
  86. /////
  87.  
  88. Never as simple as we are all encouraged to think
  89. He had compassion, but also tearing, choking
  90. poverty. He doesn’t have nothing, he doesn’t have much,
  91. we like stories that tell us it’s them not us.
  92.  
  93. She said she was not the person they think - her
  94. accent dripping the flat edged vowels of the north east
  95. They look at her and see one thing. Her
  96. mouth shaped “it’s hard to be human, isn’t it?”
  97.  
  98.  
  99. /////
  100.  
  101. I’m proud
  102. I’m proud I live here
  103.  
  104. “I just try to be open with people. Not judgmental.”
  105.  
  106. Our nation
  107. defined by acceptance
  108.  
  109. “Because that’s what people do to me, and I don’t like it”
  110.  
  111. The army
  112. changed my perspective
  113.  
  114. The army changed the way I thought - gave me a bigger perspective.
  115.  
  116. I’m proud
  117. I’m proud I live here
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