No, this is true. But a person's origins can say a great deal about them, I think - or where one has grown, or where one has travelled; in my own case very little. I may not be my country, but it is a part of me.

[thoughtful, as he takes another forkful]

That is not to say we don't learn and change. But I think it is not good to forget where we come from, especially under our circumstances.