{"id":1154,"date":"2021-05-24T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2021-06-21T09:26:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T09:26:41","slug":"riad-yagoubi-research-postgraduate-department-of-metabolism-digestion-and-reproduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/2021\/05\/24\/riad-yagoubi-research-postgraduate-department-of-metabolism-digestion-and-reproduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Riad Yagoubi, Research Postgraduate, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1155\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/files\/2021\/05\/Riad-Twitter-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><strong><em>Part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/equality\/activities\/seed-fund\/shifting-the-lens\/?utm_source=imperialpeople&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=stl-21&amp;utm_content=\">Shifting the Lens: A celebration of cultural diversity at Imperial<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;When I was in primary school, I always felt different. A lot of other people thought I was weird because I knew Arabic\/Algerian. There\u2019s very much the stereotype in France that if you speak Arabic or Algerian Arabic you haven\u2019t adapted enough to French society or can\u2019t speak French very well. As a result, I felt quite alone a lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;In France, you are allocated a high school based on location, but I was able to choose my high school because I had good results. But I felt different as most of my fellow students were the sons of politicians and doctors, and my background was completely different.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I was the only one with an Arab name. One teacher once said to me: \u201chow are you the only Arab student here? Are you sure you got good results?\u201d I realised then that I needed to fight clich\u00e9s and that my name would always create a certain image in people\u2019s minds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I did, however, study Ancient Greek in high school \u2013 this was good for me because that\u2019s where I discovered that the languages I already knew helped me to learn new languages better! The fact that my mum gave me so much knowledge helped me during my A-levels as I chose to study music and Greek.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/stories\/shifting-the-lens-riad\/?utm_source=imperialpeople&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=stl-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Riad&#8217;s full profile<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of Shifting the Lens: A celebration of cultural diversity at Imperial &#8220;When I was in primary school, I always felt different. 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