The varicultural, translanguaging and deCentring

Inability to discern separated cultures or native–non-native-speakerhood in a hugely diverse hospital setting allows deCentred observation of how cultural practices and values cross socially constructed cultural boundaries within a seamless varicultural flow. This enables inclusive and translingual threads of hybridity resourced by the everyday small culture experience we bring with us. Beginning with the small helps resist being colonised by the ‘us’–‘them’ essentialist blocks derived from the dominant separated cultures model. Much of this struggle is unspoken in the perceptions of silent onlookers, influenced by grand,personal, institutional and workplace narratives, and in how we perceive how others perceive us.