I think, in the West, we often discount the arts as nice but not that important. Certainly in America when we cut funding for schools, the arts are the first programs to go. But the arts built the things we need more than anything else: collaboration and co-operation and creativity.

When you come from a place and an identity, you can feel constricted and have to get away. But then you realise how much a part of you it is.

I would argue that the culture is not the frosting on the cake: the culture is the plate the cake sits on.

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