Like many Malagasy people, I am not yellow enough to be qualified as Asian; nor with enough dark complexion to be called black. Friends from the African continent told me that I cannot be African, even if Madagascar, where I am from, is part of this continent because I am not black enough.
     I am neither tall enough to be considered as Pacific Islander. And it is obvious that I am not white. Nonetheless, I learned to understand all those different cultures with their respective people. Now, I can consider myself as a citizen of the world serving as a link between people and cultures.
     But what makes each person unique is not only the physical trait, I would describe it rather as a combination of several things assembled within one individual: ethnicity, culture, background, environment, character, to name a few. In other words, we are not born unique, we become unique throughout our entire life.
     If there is something that impacted my perspective is the notion of risk. I have always been passionate about risk management. In high school, I already wanted to become an actuary. Then after college, I used to work for an insurance company in charge of actuarial studies.
     But, what this experience really taught me is the way I perceive risk in general. I become less and less risk averse. If our today’s society sees risk everywhere and try to avoid them; I am rather neutral to risk and try to mitigate them. I see rather the potential benefit instead of the risk itself.
     The bigger is the risk, the bigger is the reward. This is how I conceive life: relationship, business, future, society, so forth.
     I have a very very positive attitude.