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...e, and taking the mickey is a good way of putting your ideas across, and making people think again, which is why Agard wrote the poem. So the way the poem is written suits what it's trying to say. The context of the poem John Agard came to England from Guyana in 1977. Like many Caribbeans, he is himself of mixed race - his mother is Portuguese but born in Guyana and his father is black. One of the things he enjoys about living in England is the wide range of people he meets: 'The diversity of cultures here is very exciting'. However, one of the things he doesn't like is the view of racial origins which is implied in the word 'half-caste', still used by many people to describe people of mixe...