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| I was very nervous when I arrived in Argentina, because of the language. |
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| My dream was to live in Latin America. |
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| Claire is French and moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, when she was 20 years old. |
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| She went to live in San Cristóbal, a poor neighbourhood where she believed she could experience the real Argentina. |
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| For me it was more interesting than living in the 'best' areas of the city, because what you get in these areas is more a European vision. |
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| However, she suffered there from a different sort of prejudice. |
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| When you go to a supermarket or a flea market people say: Oh, you are French, so you can pay more Just because I am French people think I am rich, I got tired of it. |
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| After four years, she decided to leave Buenos Aires and had to find where home was for her again. |
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| When you live so far away for such a long time you still have your own culture and values, but you also identify with the new culture. |
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| I can't say that I am completely French anymore, because when you leave your country for so long, you lose things, habits, but you also gain a lot from the new place you live in. |
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| Sometimes I ask myself about my own identity. |
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| But after all, what is the difference between Barack Obama, the Syrian refugees, me or you … at the end of the day we are simply human beings. |
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| Now Claire is living in Geneva, where she feels that the culture is closer to the French one. |
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| I feel like home, we are close to the mountains like in my hometown in the Pyrenees, there is good wine and I know the social and cultural codes… I do not have to think about how I have to behave. |