Ella Al-Shamahi

And so I'm like, what are we doing?

And, you know, it got to the point where I was so firm and I was just like, look,

you know, you allow David Attenborough to give more emotion to ungulates than you allow me to give to our ancestors.

And it was really interesting because everyone went, oh, okay.

And my argument, like one of the arguments, because they were like, but we're in speculative territory.

And I'm like, that's okay.

We say, we make it clear.

We don't know for sure.

But I'm like, just based on anthropology and ethnography, how could we not ask if a hybrid child would feel...

belonging or not.

We know from ethnography, from anthropology, that people that are mixed, outsiders...

It is complicated.

Now, we know some tribes much more welcoming towards individuals than others.

Sometimes as well, it's dependent upon the individual, right?

But we know that these are discussions.

We know this consistently.

This is like so well documented.

And so for us to feel nervous about having that conversation is wild.

And I was like, being that I'm a third culture kid, especially, I think it is...

And being that I'm a woman, it would be even more insane for me not to say, as a third culture kid, as somebody whose parents are Arab, who I was also partially raised by my nan who's white, how would that have been?