Because in all honesty... Hiking is the most white most male thing you can do without looking like a full blown bonkers brotato. It's a dog whistle. It's been talked about a lot by non-Westerners. It's a masculine Western dog whistle... "accept me"https://twitter.com/chrisalbon/status/1142841798097637377 …
I'm not Greek. I don't identify as anything other than Middle Eastern and white-passing in the West. In Cyprus it's a different context but colorism exists in both. I see the racism directed at my mum because of what she looks like (dark skin, facial features) esp. in the UK. 
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Μα δε σε θεώρησα "Ελληνίδα" ... ? Δεν αισθάνεσαι ποτέ αμφιθυμία γι αυτά; like, which language am I ? Are my kids british? ...
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No, I feel very very excluded from Britishness especially these last 2-3 years.
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