The question of identity

In the article “I’m More Than An ‘Other’”, Meghan Markle speaks about the challenges brought on by her mixed heritage and how she created an identity beyond race, which includes her heritage.

Markle’s background created confusion around her identity: “my mixed heritage may have created a grey area surrounding my self-identification, keeping me with a foot on both sides of the fence” (ll. 240-243). This suggests that Markle found it difficult to feel like she belongs both in white and African-American culture. Moreover, from an early age, she knew that she cannot identify with one part of her heritage over the other: “You could only choose one, but that would be to choose one parent over the other – and one half of myself over the other.” (ll. 87-90) Markle felt that identifying with only one part of her parents’ heritage meant that she was rejecting one of her parents. Her words implicitly highlight tha...