Sandra Hagelstam was an Australian National, whose name is seldom heard on the lips of readers these days. Her most famous book is The Secrets of Nationality, but that’s just her writing, what are her real talent. Sandra Hagelstam was born in penniless conditions and grew up in a small cottage by herself in Australia, which was then the politically correct topic of conversation. This was back when no one was really talking about Nationality, and those who did not have a working-class background or were not of Asian descent, were not really even considered “racially correct” in this country. Not any more.
If Nationality is really a part of your identity, Sandra Hagelstam should not have been proud to call herself a Celt. If that’s how you see yourself, that’s fine. What is your problem with Nationality anyway? If you believe in your own ancestry, and all the rest of the human garbage-can of cliches, then you should be able to tell if your partner is also part of your bloodline. But if not, as in Sandra Hagelstam’s case, your partner is probably not a Celt and thus cannot be classified as such, unless he or she took an ethnic test at a dentist office recently.
In other words, Nationality is just a way to label anyone you are afraid to look down on based on your own race. And Nationality has nothing to do with height, at least not to Sandra Hagelstam. Height does not have much to do with the Nationality, since most tall people are not of Celtic decent, but Nationality has everything to do with career choice, and Sandra Hagelstam has very few choices in career. Nationality just didn’t matter to Sandra Hagelstam.