‘People are looking for is a message that they belong. That they’re part of something. That they are seen and heard and that despite or perhaps because of the uniqueness of their experience, they are valued. They want to feel represented.
Representation is not an added extra, it’s not a frill. It’s absolutely fundamental to what people expect from culture and from politics.’
TransCity schreef al in 2002: ‘Burgers met een Turkse, Marokkaanse, Surinaamse of andere achtergrond, willen zich herkennen in de mainstream.’ In de Nederlandse samenleving van 2002 was daarvan nog in het geheel geen sprake, en in de Nederlandse samenleving van 2017 misschien nog wel minder.
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