 I'm one of the few members of the European Parliament who is an immigrant from outside the European Union. Whenever I see anything about India, about the country that I came from or about my parents, I feel something about it because I think there will always be that draw. And I think today we have to understand what diversity and empowerment actually means. It means that you can be proud to be European, to have multiple identities. I've experienced racism from the start. I grew up in the 1970s in a country, Scotland, which had very few ethnic minorities. So I've experienced all types of racism, racial harassment, race discrimination. I've seen all of that. And in the political field, of course it is more subtle, but if you look around you, if you look today where we are today in the European Parliament, there is literally a small handful of visible ethnic minorities. I think the majority come from the United Kingdom. There are virtually none from most of the big countries. That's less than when I came to the European Parliament in 1999. So visible ethnic minorities are not represented in our European Parliament or the European Parliament or the European Commission. We are in a very unique moment. And I think for people of colour, different race backgrounds, non-white people, this is a moment where we have to assert our self-confidence, understanding that the opportunities are there, and to unite with people. I am a migrant.