Talk:Where is the Peruvian "community" in the UK?

Which communities are you a member of?
Very often community is in the mind. Maybe we -- in the community(!) -- should put the terms "community" and "identity" to sleep. "What are you? / Where yer from?" are (or should be) simply no-no questions in London. In an era of multiple identities (an era which began some millennia ago, it seems) trying to pigeon-hole or "ghetto-ise" someone else is an intellectual cul-de-sac. Members of the PEAC (Peru Earthquake Aid Committee) seminar might like to rephrase the question: to what extent do you consider yourself a member of the following transnational communities or "cultural archipelagos"? Here the prime descriptor of the cultural archipelago is its area of "root source migration". It would of course be simpler just to say "Where yer from, mate" - the inevitable question if a group of "mauve" people is joined by a "purple" person - or whatever colours you care to substitute.

Peruvian community in the UK. This is an important question to understand what the Peruvian community in London feels and needs
I noted that Peruvian community is well organised, they start with good ideas and projects but with the time these lose unity and continuity. I think the reason is that in our education we miss this sense of community. This Peruvian community take advantage of the moment or situation and doesn’t focus on the future. Like a Peruvian political organisation when new parties arrive to the power, it’s common that they abandon the work or project done before without examining the advantage to the community. This method of work is unhelpful and dangerous for every one (government or no) and this is the first cause why community can’t develop.

Peruvian community before have to recuperate they own unity and needs a reason to do that. We are part of very different social class and is difficult to be solitary each other. For this reason the Peruvian community has lost the interest and trust of its people (and government, political parties and non-governmental organizations).

This kind of disinterest is strong mainly in the young Peruvian group. It’s a shame because I discovered a very well educated young Peruvian community in .A group of them are very well integrated in the English community life. Another group feels in the middle, not Peruvian not English; and they are arrogant with they own countryman and not at the same time they feel not enough to be like the other Europeans.

Peruvian people miss identity, maybe it is because of our origin we have been a colony. Our story is about what the others countries did and destroyed in. Now, the new Peruvian generation is abroad for different reason but with one equal objective: this time to conquest what the life can offer them.

The new generation grow up abroad need an important reason to recuperate this sense of origin, lost and never felt before.

Rocio M.