Global Divas

Points of DepartureThe effect of mass migrations has been the creation of a radically new type of human being, people who root themselves in ideas rather than place, in memories as much as material things; people who have been obliged to define themselves-because they are so defined by others-by their otherness; people in whose deepest selves strange fusions occur, unprecedented unions between what they were and where they find themselves.The migrant suspects reality: having experienced several ways of being, he understands their illusory nature.To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.-salmanrushdie, Imaginary Homelands I left the Philippines for America to become the international beauty queen…