I’m staying in Portugal with my family who live in Norway. Some were born in Zimbabwe, some were born in England. The guests that are here are Swedish but one was born in the USA. My aunt who lives in Ireland just left. And my dad is Italian, we’re born in Zim but live in South Africa.

And today we sat around the TV and cheered on Japan while they played Belgium.

Facebook recently showed me that I have 1000 friends from outside South Africa, and 700 from South Africa.

So my friend base us international and my heritage is too.

National pride makes us feel like we belong. Like we’re part of a big tribe.

But in an ever globalised world, these boarders and groupings count for a lot less.

It’s fun to support a national football team. But as the boarders begin to blur, we’ll begin realising that we’re all pretty much the same anyway

Image was taken at a bar in Lagos where we upped the tally for Zimbabwe from 3 to 5 🙂

Song of the day: If I could change your mind – HAIM

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