Thandie Newton Embracing otherness, embracing myself

In a lengthy post documenting her feeling of otherness, the blog's author assesses how that otherness affects her treatment on the street as a woman

When I first heard this theme, I thought, well, embracing otherness is embracing myself.

Movies produced for the sexual gratification of consumers reveal cultural norms of restriction, transgression, and otherness.

My self became defined by otherness, which meant that, in that social world, I didn't really exist.

We face huge issues as a world the financial crisis, global warming and this growing sense of fear and otherness.

Egyptian born Sheik Hilaly, in Sydney, may have been verbalizing a latent sense of otherness and mistaking it for insight.

Essentially, the concept has served to justify collectivist authoritarian rule by aligning it with local tradition and culture, with autonomy defined in terms of otherness that is, differentiation from the West and its values.

Obama is consistently criticized for his otherness and his arrogance, terms that call to mind the image of the uppity nigger from the days of segregation, which are actually not so far in America s past.

Actor Thandie Newton tells the story of finding her otherness first, as a child growing up in two distinct cultures, and then as an actor playing with many different selves. A warm, wise talk, fresh from stage at TEDGlobal 2011.