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How much of the Füdlibl blood can it be?
by Ümit Yoker
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12.9.2017
Translation: machine translated
What can and do I want to pass on to my children from the country where I was born and lived until a few years ago? Can Switzerland be a home for them, even if they grow up in Portugal?
Three years have passed since my husband and I moved to Portugal with our boys. The older one was one and a half years old at the time, the younger one just a few weeks. What will Switzerland mean to them one day? Can it be a home for them, even if they don't grow up here? What do I want them to learn from the country where I was born and lived until recently, and what not?
What they don't need to know about Switzerland: How the national anthem goes. That there are still places where you're not allowed to do laundry on Sundays. What's in the Weltwoche.
I actually want my children to grow up knowing that there is more than one answer to most questions. That their identity is not primarily based on the one or other country whose passport they have, but on the fact that you can feel at home in more than one place. Presumably, home is simply a place where there are people waiting for you.
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A passionate journalist and mother of two sons who moved from Zurich to Lisbon with her husband in 2014. Does her writing in cafés and appreciates that life has been treating her well in general. <br><a href="http://uemityoker.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">uemityoker.wordpress.com</a>
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