Podcasts about asianness

In How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard Education Press, 2025), Dr. Laura C. Chávez-Moreno uncovers the process through which schools implicitly and explicitly shape their students' concept of race and the often unintentional consequences of this on educational equity. Dr.Chávez-Moreno sheds light on how the complex interactions among educational practices, policies, pedagogy, language, and societal ideas interplay to form, reinforce, and blur the boundaries of racialized groups, a dynamic which creates contradictions in classrooms and communities committed to antiracism. In this provocative book, Dr. Chávez-Moreno urges readers to rethink race, to reconceptualize Latinx as a racialized group, and to pay attention to how schools construct Latinidad (a concept about Latinx experience and identity) in relation to Blackness, Indigeneity, Asianness, and Whiteness. The work explores, as an example, how Spanish-English bilingual education programs engage in race-making work. It also illuminates how schools can offer ambitious teachings to raise their students' critical consciousness about race and racialization. Ultimately, Dr. Chávez-Moreno's groundbreaking work makes clear that understanding how our schools teach about racialized groups is crucial to understanding how our society thinks about race and offers solutions to racial inequities. The book invites educators and scholars to embrace ambitious teaching about the ambivalence of race so that teachers and students are prepared to interrogate racist ideas and act toward just outcomes. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/latino-studies

In How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard Education Press, 2025), Dr. Laura C. Chávez-Moreno uncovers the process through which schools implicitly and explicitly shape their students' concept of race and the often unintentional consequences of this on educational equity. Dr.Chávez-Moreno sheds light on how the complex interactions among educational practices, policies, pedagogy, language, and societal ideas interplay to form, reinforce, and blur the boundaries of racialized groups, a dynamic which creates contradictions in classrooms and communities committed to antiracism. In this provocative book, Dr. Chávez-Moreno urges readers to rethink race, to reconceptualize Latinx as a racialized group, and to pay attention to how schools construct Latinidad (a concept about Latinx experience and identity) in relation to Blackness, Indigeneity, Asianness, and Whiteness. The work explores, as an example, how Spanish-English bilingual education programs engage in race-making work. It also illuminates how schools can offer ambitious teachings to raise their students' critical consciousness about race and racialization. Ultimately, Dr. Chávez-Moreno's groundbreaking work makes clear that understanding how our schools teach about racialized groups is crucial to understanding how our society thinks about race and offers solutions to racial inequities. The book invites educators and scholars to embrace ambitious teaching about the ambivalence of race so that teachers and students are prepared to interrogate racist ideas and act toward just outcomes. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard Education Press, 2025), Dr. Laura C. Chávez-Moreno uncovers the process through which schools implicitly and explicitly shape their students' concept of race and the often unintentional consequences of this on educational equity. Dr.Chávez-Moreno sheds light on how the complex interactions among educational practices, policies, pedagogy, language, and societal ideas interplay to form, reinforce, and blur the boundaries of racialized groups, a dynamic which creates contradictions in classrooms and communities committed to antiracism. In this provocative book, Dr. Chávez-Moreno urges readers to rethink race, to reconceptualize Latinx as a racialized group, and to pay attention to how schools construct Latinidad (a concept about Latinx experience and identity) in relation to Blackness, Indigeneity, Asianness, and Whiteness. The work explores, as an example, how Spanish-English bilingual education programs engage in race-making work. It also illuminates how schools can offer ambitious teachings to raise their students' critical consciousness about race and racialization. Ultimately, Dr. Chávez-Moreno's groundbreaking work makes clear that understanding how our schools teach about racialized groups is crucial to understanding how our society thinks about race and offers solutions to racial inequities. The book invites educators and scholars to embrace ambitious teaching about the ambivalence of race so that teachers and students are prepared to interrogate racist ideas and act toward just outcomes. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

In How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard Education Press, 2025), Dr. Laura C. Chávez-Moreno uncovers the process through which schools implicitly and explicitly shape their students' concept of race and the often unintentional consequences of this on educational equity. Dr.Chávez-Moreno sheds light on how the complex interactions among educational practices, policies, pedagogy, language, and societal ideas interplay to form, reinforce, and blur the boundaries of racialized groups, a dynamic which creates contradictions in classrooms and communities committed to antiracism. In this provocative book, Dr. Chávez-Moreno urges readers to rethink race, to reconceptualize Latinx as a racialized group, and to pay attention to how schools construct Latinidad (a concept about Latinx experience and identity) in relation to Blackness, Indigeneity, Asianness, and Whiteness. The work explores, as an example, how Spanish-English bilingual education programs engage in race-making work. It also illuminates how schools can offer ambitious teachings to raise their students' critical consciousness about race and racialization. Ultimately, Dr. Chávez-Moreno's groundbreaking work makes clear that understanding how our schools teach about racialized groups is crucial to understanding how our society thinks about race and offers solutions to racial inequities. The book invites educators and scholars to embrace ambitious teaching about the ambivalence of race so that teachers and students are prepared to interrogate racist ideas and act toward just outcomes. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

In How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard Education Press, 2025), Dr. Laura C. Chávez-Moreno uncovers the process through which schools implicitly and explicitly shape their students' concept of race and the often unintentional consequences of this on educational equity. Dr.Chávez-Moreno sheds light on how the complex interactions among educational practices, policies, pedagogy, language, and societal ideas interplay to form, reinforce, and blur the boundaries of racialized groups, a dynamic which creates contradictions in classrooms and communities committed to antiracism. In this provocative book, Dr. Chávez-Moreno urges readers to rethink race, to reconceptualize Latinx as a racialized group, and to pay attention to how schools construct Latinidad (a concept about Latinx experience and identity) in relation to Blackness, Indigeneity, Asianness, and Whiteness. The work explores, as an example, how Spanish-English bilingual education programs engage in race-making work. It also illuminates how schools can offer ambitious teachings to raise their students' critical consciousness about race and racialization. Ultimately, Dr. Chávez-Moreno's groundbreaking work makes clear that understanding how our schools teach about racialized groups is crucial to understanding how our society thinks about race and offers solutions to racial inequities. The book invites educators and scholars to embrace ambitious teaching about the ambivalence of race so that teachers and students are prepared to interrogate racist ideas and act toward just outcomes. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

In How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard Education Press, 2025), Dr. Laura C. Chávez-Moreno uncovers the process through which schools implicitly and explicitly shape their students' concept of race and the often unintentional consequences of this on educational equity. Dr.Chávez-Moreno sheds light on how the complex interactions among educational practices, policies, pedagogy, language, and societal ideas interplay to form, reinforce, and blur the boundaries of racialized groups, a dynamic which creates contradictions in classrooms and communities committed to antiracism. In this provocative book, Dr. Chávez-Moreno urges readers to rethink race, to reconceptualize Latinx as a racialized group, and to pay attention to how schools construct Latinidad (a concept about Latinx experience and identity) in relation to Blackness, Indigeneity, Asianness, and Whiteness. The work explores, as an example, how Spanish-English bilingual education programs engage in race-making work. It also illuminates how schools can offer ambitious teachings to raise their students' critical consciousness about race and racialization. Ultimately, Dr. Chávez-Moreno's groundbreaking work makes clear that understanding how our schools teach about racialized groups is crucial to understanding how our society thinks about race and offers solutions to racial inequities. The book invites educators and scholars to embrace ambitious teaching about the ambivalence of race so that teachers and students are prepared to interrogate racist ideas and act toward just outcomes. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education

In How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard Education Press, 2025), Dr. Laura C. Chávez-Moreno uncovers the process through which schools implicitly and explicitly shape their students' concept of race and the often unintentional consequences of this on educational equity. Dr.Chávez-Moreno sheds light on how the complex interactions among educational practices, policies, pedagogy, language, and societal ideas interplay to form, reinforce, and blur the boundaries of racialized groups, a dynamic which creates contradictions in classrooms and communities committed to antiracism. In this provocative book, Dr. Chávez-Moreno urges readers to rethink race, to reconceptualize Latinx as a racialized group, and to pay attention to how schools construct Latinidad (a concept about Latinx experience and identity) in relation to Blackness, Indigeneity, Asianness, and Whiteness. The work explores, as an example, how Spanish-English bilingual education programs engage in race-making work. It also illuminates how schools can offer ambitious teachings to raise their students' critical consciousness about race and racialization. Ultimately, Dr. Chávez-Moreno's groundbreaking work makes clear that understanding how our schools teach about racialized groups is crucial to understanding how our society thinks about race and offers solutions to racial inequities. The book invites educators and scholars to embrace ambitious teaching about the ambivalence of race so that teachers and students are prepared to interrogate racist ideas and act toward just outcomes. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

This week Mofei and Calvin explore personal stories and experiences of growing up in diverse environments where cultural authenticity is often questioned and scrutinized. Join us as we discuss how we've navigated the pressures of fitting into a specific mold of "Asianness" and the impact this might have on our sense of identity and belonging.

This week in Asian American news: We cover a NYTimes article that profiling some young Asian Americans in Chinatown. Aaron, an organizer in that same Chinatown, has some thoughts. One of the country's oldest unions, United Auto Workers, goes on strike! They get the big 3 manufacturers play whack-a-mole with the plants and boy do GM, Ford, and Stellantis miss every mole. A new Pew study finds that among Asian Americans, those who are young, 2nd gen, and…Democrat? are more likely to hide their culture and identity. We try to figure out why peopl are still coming up with studies like this. The New Yorker drops a bombshell of an interview with Hasan Minhaj that has the internet in an uproar: the man exaggerates in his stand-up! As comedians, we discuss the ethics of lying in one's jokes.  - WHAT'S  POLITICALLY ASIAN PODCAST? -- We're two Asian American comedians talking about politics and the Asian American community to get more Asians talking about politics! Join Aaron Yin (he/him) and Gerrie Lim (they/them) for 45 minutes-ish each week as we discuss current topics and events related to Asian Americans through the lenses of history, class, and advocacy. CHECK US OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA:  Instagram: https://instagram.com/politicallyasianpodcast/  Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@politicallyasianpodcast  Twitter: https://twitter.com/politicasianpod  Website: https://politicallyasianpodcast.com Support us at https://buymeacoffee.com/politicalasian  COMMENTS, THOUGHTS, OPINIONS, HOT TAKES, FEEDBACK: politicallyasianpodcast@gmail.com  MUSIC by Clueless Kit: https://soundcloud.com/cluelesskit Song title: live now

Gabe is SHOCKED to learn that River is interested in men, which leads to a fun conversation about River's type and the assumptions everyone makes about trans men's sexualities. Then, Gabe has a lot of gripes about how horribly men behave in the men's bathroom. Finally, actor and activist Leo Sheng joins for a vulnerable and smart conversation about how his gender dovetailed with his adoption and his Asianness and not feeling like a "girl attracted to girls" or a "girl attracted to boys." Plus, how was it to be in one of the most healing trans scenes in the L Word: Gen Q?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Evelyn Mok is well known for being the former co-host of the (now retired) Rice to Meet You Podcast and the creative mind behind multiple popular sketches. The Swedish native is also one of the highest-profile comedian of East Asian heritage in the UK, who now spends her time between both countries.Evelyn talked about how the feeling of being "other'ed in Sweden in her childhood prompted her to mimic a near perfect American accent as an escape. She also shared the cadence employed earlier in her comedy career - partially a remnant of getting out of a stage character and partially her understanding at that time of how funny should sound like.This episode also includes Evelyn's reflection on her relationship between stand up (more specifically doing stand up in the UK) and depression and why it can be a complex mix. She has prioritised taking care of her own mental health and is now a in better place again to pursue her love for stand up.---------------------------------Follow Evelyn on InstagramFollow your host Kuan-wen on Instagram and Twitter----------------------------------If you like the episode, please share it and leave a review.For any comments or suggestions, please contact us on Instagram or email comedywithanaccent@gmail.com----------------------------------Episode timeline00:48 Intro (& some chitchat)05:19 Where did Evelyn's get her near perfect American accent from and why was young Evelyn determined to mimic the American accent?08:45 Why ethnic minority immigrants are more likely to try stand up comedy09:55 Can Evelyn's American accent fool native speakers?11:05 When Evelyn's Swedish sound slips13:00 Different Nordic sounds and stereotypes (inc. some Eurovision chat)16:54 Evelyn might not have to explain her accent but needs to address her background - because of her ethinicty - if she wants to mention Sweden21:25 Evelyn's old “cadence” - the way Evelyn used to speak on stage - and the character she used to employ24:58 How “Funny” sounded to Evelyn30:21 Depression; how it affected Evelyn's stand up33:12 From a character to a stage persona to finally be her true self37:44 Evelyn can only manage this American accent41:07 Is Evelyn more fluent in English than in her native Cantonese?41:52 Re-discovering her Swedishness and Asianness -45:15 Looking back on a therapy like—episode47:27 Evelyn's social media---------------------------------Podcast intro music by @Taigenkawabe

In Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (Duke UP, 2022), Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as “racist love,” she explores how race is abstracted and then projected onto Asianized objects. Bow shows how anthropomorphic objects and images such as cartoon animals in children's books, home décor and cute tchotchkes, contemporary visual art, and artificially intelligent robots function as repositories of seemingly positive feelings and attachment to Asianness.  At the same time, Bow demonstrates that these Asianized proxies reveal how fetishistic attraction and pleasure serve as a source of anti-Asian bias and violence. By outlining how attraction to popular representations of Asianness cloaks racial resentment and fears of globalization, Bow provides a new means of understanding the ambivalence surrounding Asians in the United States while offering a theory of the psychological, affective, and symbolic dynamics of racist love in contemporary America. Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (Duke UP, 2022), Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as “racist love,” she explores how race is abstracted and then projected onto Asianized objects. Bow shows how anthropomorphic objects and images such as cartoon animals in children's books, home décor and cute tchotchkes, contemporary visual art, and artificially intelligent robots function as repositories of seemingly positive feelings and attachment to Asianness.  At the same time, Bow demonstrates that these Asianized proxies reveal how fetishistic attraction and pleasure serve as a source of anti-Asian bias and violence. By outlining how attraction to popular representations of Asianness cloaks racial resentment and fears of globalization, Bow provides a new means of understanding the ambivalence surrounding Asians in the United States while offering a theory of the psychological, affective, and symbolic dynamics of racist love in contemporary America. Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/asian-american-studies

In Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (Duke UP, 2022), Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as “racist love,” she explores how race is abstracted and then projected onto Asianized objects. Bow shows how anthropomorphic objects and images such as cartoon animals in children's books, home décor and cute tchotchkes, contemporary visual art, and artificially intelligent robots function as repositories of seemingly positive feelings and attachment to Asianness.  At the same time, Bow demonstrates that these Asianized proxies reveal how fetishistic attraction and pleasure serve as a source of anti-Asian bias and violence. By outlining how attraction to popular representations of Asianness cloaks racial resentment and fears of globalization, Bow provides a new means of understanding the ambivalence surrounding Asians in the United States while offering a theory of the psychological, affective, and symbolic dynamics of racist love in contemporary America. Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

In Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (Duke UP, 2022), Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as “racist love,” she explores how race is abstracted and then projected onto Asianized objects. Bow shows how anthropomorphic objects and images such as cartoon animals in children's books, home décor and cute tchotchkes, contemporary visual art, and artificially intelligent robots function as repositories of seemingly positive feelings and attachment to Asianness.  At the same time, Bow demonstrates that these Asianized proxies reveal how fetishistic attraction and pleasure serve as a source of anti-Asian bias and violence. By outlining how attraction to popular representations of Asianness cloaks racial resentment and fears of globalization, Bow provides a new means of understanding the ambivalence surrounding Asians in the United States while offering a theory of the psychological, affective, and symbolic dynamics of racist love in contemporary America. Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

In Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (Duke UP, 2022), Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as “racist love,” she explores how race is abstracted and then projected onto Asianized objects. Bow shows how anthropomorphic objects and images such as cartoon animals in children's books, home décor and cute tchotchkes, contemporary visual art, and artificially intelligent robots function as repositories of seemingly positive feelings and attachment to Asianness.  At the same time, Bow demonstrates that these Asianized proxies reveal how fetishistic attraction and pleasure serve as a source of anti-Asian bias and violence. By outlining how attraction to popular representations of Asianness cloaks racial resentment and fears of globalization, Bow provides a new means of understanding the ambivalence surrounding Asians in the United States while offering a theory of the psychological, affective, and symbolic dynamics of racist love in contemporary America. Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

In Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (Duke UP, 2022), Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as “racist love,” she explores how race is abstracted and then projected onto Asianized objects. Bow shows how anthropomorphic objects and images such as cartoon animals in children's books, home décor and cute tchotchkes, contemporary visual art, and artificially intelligent robots function as repositories of seemingly positive feelings and attachment to Asianness.  At the same time, Bow demonstrates that these Asianized proxies reveal how fetishistic attraction and pleasure serve as a source of anti-Asian bias and violence. By outlining how attraction to popular representations of Asianness cloaks racial resentment and fears of globalization, Bow provides a new means of understanding the ambivalence surrounding Asians in the United States while offering a theory of the psychological, affective, and symbolic dynamics of racist love in contemporary America. Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

In Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (Duke UP, 2022), Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as “racist love,” she explores how race is abstracted and then projected onto Asianized objects. Bow shows how anthropomorphic objects and images such as cartoon animals in children's books, home décor and cute tchotchkes, contemporary visual art, and artificially intelligent robots function as repositories of seemingly positive feelings and attachment to Asianness.  At the same time, Bow demonstrates that these Asianized proxies reveal how fetishistic attraction and pleasure serve as a source of anti-Asian bias and violence. By outlining how attraction to popular representations of Asianness cloaks racial resentment and fears of globalization, Bow provides a new means of understanding the ambivalence surrounding Asians in the United States while offering a theory of the psychological, affective, and symbolic dynamics of racist love in contemporary America. Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture

Listen to ASCO's Journal of Clinical Oncology essay, “How Are You, Choi-Seonsaeng?” by Dr. April Choi, a Hematology and Oncology fellow at Tufts Medical Center. The essay is followed by an interview with Choi and host Dr. Lidia Schapira. Choi discusses how navigating US healthcare is similar to acclimating to a foreign country. TRANSCRIPT Narrator: How Are You, Choi-Seonsaeng?, by April Choi, MD (10.1200/JCO.22.02103) It was not until Mr. Yoon's nurse contacted me (an intern eager to flex her Korean skills) for an “agitated patient who is trying to leave the hospital” that his limited knowledge of English became apparent to everyone. Mr. Yoon was sent down to the radiology department for an additional computed tomography scan earlier that day. He had been admitted for partial bowel obstruction secondary to a colonic mass. After his scan was completed, a technician reportedly told him that he was “good to go.” As soon as he arrived back in his hospital room, Mr. Yoon, happily thinking that he was being discharged, began to pack his belongings and changed out of his hospital gown. The nurse, aware of the team's plan for his upcoming hemicolectomy but ignorant of what had transpired downstairs in radiology, interpreted this as the patient trying to leave against medical advice. I ran into his room, ready to de-escalate the situation, only for him to turn happily around and ask in Korean, “how are you, Choi-seonsaeng?” (seonsaeng means a teacher, but here it is used as an honorific for respecting the person to whom it is addressed). His hospitalization was already difficult because of a lack of family support; his surrogate decision maker was a fellow church member of whom he had “asked for a favor.” To add to this, his English was just good enough to cause more harm than good. Had he not spoken any English, more people would have defaulted to using an interpreter. Instead, he knew just enough English to convince his doctors and nurses that he understood his treatment plans, and they would leave his room each morning satisfied when he would smile, nod, and say “no questions.” I could empathize with the struggle that he had in this hospital. As a 1.5-generation (those who immigrated before or during their early teens) Korean immigrant growing up in California, I quickly became an expert in appearing unfazed by something, even if that thing seemed very odd to me at first. Things like adults asking me to call them by their first names. Following my friend into their living room without taking off my shoes. Someone telling me, “I see where you're coming from,” when I had been sitting down and talking to them for the past 15 minutes—I was not coming from anywhere! In most of these situations, my strategy has always been to smile, nod, and try not to say anything that might sound incredibly stupid. I am fairly certain others implement similar strategies when navigating different cultures as they travel in foreign countries. After all, most of us do not harbor the communicative finesse that Anthony Bourdain had while interacting with the locals in Parts Unknown. For many of us immigrants, “smile-and-nod” ends up being the default response in unfamiliar or uncomfortable situations, such as in hospitals. I can attest that this sense of “foreignness,” or “Asianness,” never quite goes away. Although my parents would increasingly comment that I “act like an American,” and even after I had been living in the United States longer than I had in Korea, my Korean-ness stuck around. Sometimes more, sometimes less, very much like the awkward lilt in my English that made people ask, “so where are you really from?” I would prick my own thumb with a needle if I had indigestion because I was told it would get out the bad blood. When I got nauseous, I would make myself jook, or rice porridge, because it was the only thing my stomach could tolerate. I continue to identify as a Korean—maybe Korean American on some days, but never fully just American. On my last day of service, Mr. Yoon was still waiting to get his hemicolectomy. As I explained the general plans involving surgery followed by chemotherapy, he asked if there was any way he could have some jook before his upcoming hemicolectomy. He had been ordering oatmeal, but it “wasn't right.” I could only eke out, “I'll look into it,” before I ran out of his room and straight into the unit's physician's workroom. There I started crying and babbling incoherently to my non-Asian co-intern about jook and how I simply must get some for Mr Yoon. Although crying in a workroom for sleep-deprived and overworked interns might have been a rite of passage in my residency, I cried because it had finally dawned on me that Mr. Yoon was terrified of his diagnosis. This gentleman, who was more than twice my age but still made my day by referring to me as a seonsaeng, had been smiling and nodding his way through the uncertainty of his cancer diagnosis and what was to come. He wanted something he was accustomed to, something he could bank on to make him feel better. For him, like many Koreans I know, it was the jook. Unfortunately, he had no friends or family checking in on him, let alone bringing him food that he enjoyed. For him, finding a way to get some comfort through jook was more important than hearing strangers give reassurances of “everything will be fine” and “we have a plan.” On that day, I was reminded of when I moved to a strange new city for medical school, forlornly eating dinner by myself when instead I could be surrounded by my family and talking about how our day went. I understood the sadness you feel when you are sick and too tired to do anything, but you are cooking your own jook because your mother is not there for you. I empathized with wanting to eat food that you are accustomed to and the distress you feel when you are unable to find it because of where you are or the situation you are going through. In my family, food is both comfort and love; sharing food is how I know I am cared for. For Mr. Yoon, it was not just about food but rather the lack of support he felt during his upcoming cancer treatment. I ended up getting some jook delivered to our hospital that day. I recall muttering something about wishing him an uneventful surgery as I tearfully handed him the plastic tub of jook. Several months later, I was paged to the hospital unit and found Mr. Yoon waiting for me, skin duskier than I recalled but overall appearing well. He told me that on being discharged after surgery, he connected with a Korean-speaking oncologist and completed his chemotherapy. His oncologist told him his recent scan did not show any evidence of cancer. He said he had been meaning to visit me because he wanted to thank me for the jook I had given him before his surgery. We talked for a bit before I had to leave for my afternoon clinic—that was the last time I saw Mr. Yoon. Several years and a worldwide pandemic later, I find myself fortunate to be training in oncology in a strange new city again. I am once again reminded of how difficult adjusting to a new area is and then think about how more difficult it is for our immigrant patients to navigate their cancer treatment. Undergoing cancer treatment is very much like immigrating to a different country. You cannot be 100% sure of what may happen in this new country, and no amount of second-hand information from other people can adequately prepare you for what lies ahead. You do not quite grasp the language, so you smile and nod your way through each doctor's visit and hope things will turn out alright. When you couple this with an actual language barrier, it may feel like being lost in a foreign country without being able to ask for directions. It is important for us oncologists to dig deeper and understand the cultures from which our patients come. Instead of asking if they are eating well, ask what they enjoy eating. Are they able to eat the food they were eating before? Or are they navigating a new diet planned by a nutritionist who does not know the difference between oatmeal and jook? Have we considered what a patient's family does to provide support, on the days when chemotherapy is too rough and the nausea is too bad? We may be surprised to find what is hidden behind the polite nods and small smiles.   Dr. Lidia Schapira: Hello, and welcome to JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology, brought to you by ASCO Podcasts, which covers a range of educational and scientific content and offers enriching insight into the world of cancer care. You can find all ASCO shows, including this one, at: podcasts.asco.org. I'm your host, Lidia Schapira, Associate Editor for Art of Oncology, and a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. Today, we're joined by Dr. April Choi, a Hematology and Oncology fellow at Tufts Medical Center. In this episode, we will be discussing her Art of Oncology article, ‘How Are You, Choi-seonsaeng?' At the time of this recording, our guest has no disclosures. April, welcome to our podcast and thank you for joining us. Dr. April Choi: Good morning. I'm glad to be here. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Well, it's afternoon in California, so, it's wonderful that you are someplace where it's morning. Where exactly are you today? Dr. April Choi: I'm currently in South Korea visiting my relatives. Dr. Lidia Schapira: That's wonderful, and brings us to the heart of your essay, which is a moving narrative that describes your interaction when you were a medical resident, with a patient who is a Korean immigrant. Tell us a little bit about the motivation that led you to write this article and then share it with others. Dr. April Choi: First of all, I'm very happy that you enjoyed this article. It comes from my heart, and I've been meaning to write this article for many years now, actually. And I wrote this piece initially a year after I saw Mr. Yoon again. I think one of the things that I wanted to share with everyone is how difficult it could be as an immigrant to navigate the complexities of the hospital, even if you do speak a little bit of English. And I think the cancer part really complicated his care, and I really wanted to make sure that people who might not have this interaction, because they grew up in the United States, or have never encountered someone who is from a different culture, to be able to experience, second-hand, what it feels like to treat someone who is of the same culture, but might not have the linguistic sophistication or experience working in healthcare system. Dr. Lidia Schapira: You start off the article with a little dose of humor that I found very refreshing - turns out that your patient, Mr. Yoon, is told by an X-ray tech or a CT tech that, "He's good to go." And he interprets that as, "He's good to leave the hospital", only to find that the nurse misinterprets his preparation to leave as, "He's leaving against medical advice." And that's when you enter the story. Bring us to the bedside; tell us a little bit about your interactions with Yoon. Dr. April Choi: I think, in retrospect, it might have been very funny. I do have to say, when it happened, it was a very stressful time for me. I was not in that hospital unit at all until I got this call, when the nurse was very distraught and said, "You need to come to bedside. He is trying to leave, he's agitated, he won't listen." And as I had written in my article, I ran. I ran towards his room because by then, we had developed some sort of a relationship where he would actually ask me, "Oh, what was that other doctor talking about?" So, we had a really close relationship, and when I heard that he was agitated, I couldn't believe it because he was one of the nicest patients that I had seen before. And for me to find out that he was under the impression he was being discharged after all this, I was immediately reminded of my parents, and how they speak enough English, where they can get by, but at the same time, I don't think they would be okay in a hospital setting. And I think that goes for a lot of 1.5 generation, as I talked about in my article, as well as the second-generation immigrants, where they understand everything, but for their parents, it's not the case. Dr. Lidia Schapira: So, let's talk about your parents and our patient here, and then those who perhaps just speak a little to get by. And it's easy to think that in a hospital setting where there's so many time pressures and everybody wants to be efficient, sometimes, things just slip by, and we don't take the time, perhaps, to ask as many questions, because we don't have an interpreter at bedside, or because it takes a little bit more effort. You give these examples so beautifully in your essay. What are you doing now that you're an Oncology fellow, or future Oncologist, to communicate with patients? Dr. April Choi: I actually do a lot of drawings. I think drawing is one of the strongest ways someone can communicate. So, a lot of the times I have my multicolored pen, and I will draw whichever they need to - if it's esophageal cancer, I will draw them where their cancer is located-- right before my vacation, I talked to someone about radiation fields - I will draw little rectangles, and talk about how, no, reradiation is not possible, for example. I do try to use very simple language, and when I say simple, I don't mean to say that they are any less intelligent than we are because a lot of our patients, in their own language, they're amazingly intelligent and they understand everything. But trying to refrain from using things like, "You're good to go", or some examples that people who never grew up in the U.S. might not know about, such as, one of the examples I had done was, "I see where you're coming from", and everyone seems to know that, except for the immigrants. Because, “What are you saying? I was sitting next to you; I was talking to you. What do you mean by you see where I'm coming from?” And those things, I think, people don't stop and think about, but once you say, what is the literal translation for this? And say, “Is this something, if I had heard it for the first time, something you understand?” And just taking that time to say, “Maybe this is not the most commonly used phrase.” And then, using a more direct language can really help the patients who are of limited English proficiency. Dr. Lidia Schapira: You used the expression 1.5 generation, and I know that when we reviewed the article, some of us had never heard that expression. And then, you explained to us that this refers to those who came as teens, or young enough so that they were quick to learn and assimilate into the new culture, but sufficiently grown to really also be firmly rooted in the mother culture. Tell us a little bit about where you are with this, and how this has shaped the way you've approached your life as a medical student, as a resident, and now, as an Oncologist. Dr. April Choi: I think it's impossible to talk about my medical education without talking about how I was brought up. I was actually born in the United States but moved to Korea when I was less than a year old. And I stayed there until third grade when I moved to California for the first time, stayed until fifth grade, and I moved back to Korea until middle school, then I moved back to California to start high school, and I've been here since then. So, this moving back and forth, I think, did create a lot of confusion when I was growing up because the two cultures are very different, and the medical system is also inherently very different compared to Korea. And I come from a place where in Korea you could go see a doctor if you're sick, and when I was living in the U.S., our family didn't have health insurance. So, the first time I saw an American doctor was when I was in high school. And at that time, my brother had dislocated his shoulder, and I remember my mom bringing him to the emergency department, University of California, Irvine. And at that time, she was very polite, she would say, "yes", and smile and nod to whichever the emergency doctor had told her about the dislocated shoulder. But I remember her always turning to me after he left, to say, "What about this? What about the medication?" But she didn't feel comfortable to interrupt this doctor who had come in, and ask about the things that she was worried about - this was her son. He had dislocated his shoulder for the first time. But for her to feel culturally uncomfortable to interrupt them and ask questions, and have all of her questions answered, I think really stuck with me. Dr. Lidia Schapira: I hear a lot of emotion in your voice when you talk about this, and you bring up issues of safety for people who are vulnerable. How are you dealing with this now that you have so much power, as an oncologist whose patients are placing their life in your hands? Dr. April Choi: Honestly, I feel blessed and grateful that I'm in a position where I can change things for the better. I'm currently invested in research looking at Asian-American disparity in cancer patients. And having that opportunity where I have the medical language and knowledge to explain things better for patients who are of Korean-American descent, I think is a very encouraging and powerful motivator for me to continue on. So, I think my career trajectory is for me to advocate for the, you know, Korean-American, as well as the other Asian-American patients who are undergoing the same situation that Yoon and my family were going through. Dr. Lidia Schapira: It's a beautiful story that links your attachment to culture and family, and provides the inspiration that is now driving your career as a researcher, and somebody who really is going to use all their knowledge to advance this field. I imagine your family must be enormously proud, but let's just finish by talking a little bit more about this lovely gentleman, Yoon, and his need for jook, that you've told us is not porridge, is not oatmeal but is comfort food and the comfort food that you felt he needed. Tell us a little bit about that - in how food can provide solace, and all the efforts that you went to, to give that to your patient who you felt was really quite frightened. Dr. April Choi: So, if you search jook and Google, or try to get additional information, they talk about it as if it's the same thing as congee, which is the Chinese version of rice porridge. So, jook actually isn't just made out of rice; it could be made out of combinations, or different proteins. Obviously, rice does play a main factor, but it could be made out of beans, for example, and other ingredients. But the Korean thought is that if you're sick, you need something that's easy to digest and something that's been cooked slowly so that your body doesn't have to do the work. And one of the main things is the jook. We actually have many jook specialty shops in Korea, often close to different hospitals, for example. It's the main food that's served by the hospitals if you're in-patient, although you might have a lot of different Korean food when you're hospitalized here. I think my experience comes from the fact that if you're scared, you want something that you already know, or you're comforted by - almost like a safety blanket. And when someone can't even get the basic food that they're used to eating-- if you're used to eating rice every single meal, and then you plop them down in a hospital that gives you toast for breakfast and eggs, and other ingredients that you're not used to, I don't understand how people can expect to feel at home. Is it just because someone says, "Make yourself comfortable"? It doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to make yourself comfortable if the main food that you eat is not available? And that is something that I wanted to emphasize - that food we think is so easy to arrange for-- we have dieticians, we have nutritionists in the hospital, but we don't really think about patients' comfort that way. And I think it's something that I think about a lot when I'm seeing a lot of the GI patients here, it is a field that I'm interested in. And for people to keep on losing weight, and for us to keep on asking, "Are you eating enough?" I wonder if that's enough because in Tufts Medical Center, where I'm fortunate to be training in, there's a very significant Chinese-American population. And anecdotally, or at least my experience has been that patients will say, "Oh yes, I'm eating a lot", or nod, and smile and say, "Yes". But if you ask the family members, they say, "Oh, they don't eat the things that they used to." And they don't tell us this because they don't want to burden the doctors with less important things. But I do think this is very important, and it's something that we need to really talk about, and try to find ways that we can make them feel at ease, and comfort them while we're maintaining whichever treatment that we are giving for these patients. Dr. Lidia Schapira: So, April, this has been a lovely conversation that reminds us of the importance of good communication, communication across cultures and barriers, and just taking the time to help our patients really feel safe and welcome. April, we have time for one last thought. Dr. April Choi: I do want to say that eventually, many years down the road in my career, I do hope to have a situation where instead of me having to explain Asian-American cancer disparity, that we have an opportunity to say Asian-American cancer diversity; that it's not a matter of someone getting less care, it's more important that we get different types of care - a diverse type of care that's catered towards Asian-Americans. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Well, with that lovely thought, I will leave our listeners until next time. And I want to thank you for listening to JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology. Don't forget to give us a rating or review wherever you listen. Be sure to subscribe, so you never miss an episode. JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology, is just one of ASCO's many podcasts. You can find all of the shows at: podcasts.asco.org. The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. Guest statements on the podcast do not express the opinions of ASCO. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy, should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement. Show Notes: Like, share and subscribe so you never miss an episode and leave a rating or review. Guest Bio: Dr. April Choi is a Hematology and Oncology fellow at Tufts Medical Center.

This week Esther Sae Lee is joining us to talk about taking risks when you're risk averse, learning to value yourself, how to pivot when your dreams change, and how to start a business like Esther did with Asian Founded! Support small asian owned brands by checking out her website and social channels! xx, Esther, Julie, and Hana ESTHER SAE LEE & ASIAN FOUNDED Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/esthersaelee/ https://www.instagram.com/asianfounded/ TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@asianfounded Website | https://www.asianfounded.com/ BULGOGI POD TikTok | tiktok.com/@bulgogi.podcast Instagram | instagram.com/bulgogi.podcast Twitter | twitter.com/bulgogipodcast JULIE & HANA Julie | tiktok.com/@bejulified Hana | instagram.com/hanakattt all social media + design work + cover art by diana diane - https://www.instagram.com/dammmmndee/ sounds by 808kino contact us at bulgogipod@gmail.com INTRO 1:06 Julie can whistle 2:42 Hana's Getting Lasik 3:20 Breaking out 3:52 Low on Vitamin D 5:55 Julie's IUD 7:33 Julie got rear ended 10:57 Birth Control 13:08 Hana's New York Trip 20:19 The craziest way Hana's been hit on at a club 24:40 Julie's trip to Avila Beach ESTHER, ASIAN FOUNDED 30:50 Esther's Intro 32:11 Cup-a-bug 35:00 Relationship w Social Media 36:40 Esther's reporter and news experience 39:00 The start of Asian Founded 41:11 Being risk adverse 49:47 Undervaluing yourself 52:00 Asking vs Telling 53:13 In my Asianness, I am always trying to be respectful 55:10 Asian Founded's trajectory 58:39 Goal oriented --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bulgogipod/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bulgogipod/support

This week, Dr. Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim brings some excellent news for bilinguals! Find out how speaking another language makes your brain more efficient, as early as infancy. You do not want to miss this one. GUEST BIO Dr. Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Research Group at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on the neural and cognitive consequences of bilingualism. During her PhD, she was awarded the ThinkSwiss Research Award and Mitacs Globalink Research Award to conduct research abroad at the Institute of Multilingualism in Fribourg, Switzerland. Before her postdoctorate position at Northwestern University, Ashley earned her PhD from York University in Psychology. https://sites.google.com/site/ashleykchungfatyim/ TERMS Mauritian Mauritius Creole Monolinguals Bilinguals Psycholinguistics WEIRD samples MENTIONED IN THE SHOW: The Power of Language - Dr. Viorica Marian TAKEAWAYS: Many immigrants pride themselves on working hard, contributing to their adopted country, and assimilating to the best of their ability. When we move out, our parents can't be responsible for our safety and success anymore. This sometimes helps them relax and shift into a more supportive role rather than actively worrying 24/7. We can't always articulate our need for diversity. Even though Dr. Chung-Fat-Yim never experienced overt racism, moving to a school with more Asian kids was a welcome change. Both Dr. Chung-Fat-Yim and Sherry feel that moving to the U.S. made them more aware of their Asianness and their status as a minority. Sexism is alive and well in academia. If you see your female colleagues' ideas shot down, then applauded when coming from a male, speak up and give the female colleague due credit. Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research is driven by questions posed by people like Dr. Chung-Fat-Yim, whose unique backgrounds help identify gaps in psycholinguistics that are only beginning to be filled. In a bilingual brain, there isn't a switch to use one language or the other. Rather, every language is activated at the same time, and we have to inhibit all of them except the one we want to use. Bilinguals' language processing areas of the brain develop more grey matter and white matter. This translates to better performance on both linguistic and non-linguistic tasks. Bilinguals also process some information faster than monolinguals and can be observed even in infants who have not yet acquired language, but who live in a bilingual household. Some cultures place more emphasis on the tone of voice to detect or express emotions, while others rely more on facial expression. It does not matter at what age you start learning a language, you can reap the benefits of bilingualism as long as you keep practicing and maintain fluency. Using the Duo Lingo app is as effective as doing brain training exercises and leads to improvements in performance in older adults. If you learn a new language later in life, you experience the foreign language effect, where you process things with more emotional distance in the new language than in your native tongue. Instagram | Blog | LinkedIn | Twitter Hosts: Ariadne Mila & Sherry-Lynn Lee

For centuries, mixed-race Asian folks' stories have been mostly told for them rather than by them. They've been weaponized as battlegrounds upon which racial wars are fought and they've been turned into symbols of a supposedly post-racial utopian world. But no longer. As the numbers of folks who self-identify as mixed-race skyrocket, mixed-race Asians are reclaiming their narratives in popular culture, academia, and day-to-day interactions. In this episode, we speak with Aria Binns-Zager (she/her), Dr. Wei Ming Dariotis (she/her/ta), Isabella Martinez (she/her), and Allison Perales (she/her) about the complexity of the lived experience of mixed-race Asianness, shifts and conflicts in mixed-race culture and politics, and what the future of mixed-race identity could look like now that mixed-race folks finally get to shape it. As an accompaniment to this episode, we've created a list of resources for Mixed Asians (mixed-race, mixed-ethnicity, transracial and transnational adoptees) at bit.ly/3MhkQq6. While by no means comprehensive, this collection of resources aims to be a jumping off point for learning and community building. Check out Aria Binns-Zager's podcast “SNITCH!”. Music by REDproductions and Alex_MakeMusic via Pixabay.

Kristina Cho is the creator of the food blog and Instagram feed Eat Cho Food and the author of the cookbook Mooncakes & Milk Bread.Having the opportunity to live in this incredible neighborhood in California gave me some type of resolve, and I was able to feel confident embracing both sides of me. I think if I grew up in California, in some of these different neighborhoods, I would probably feel and be able to fully embrace the Asianness and Americanness more than I am now. But it's a thing I'm continuing to work on through my food, in a way. With each recipe, I'm trying to kind of explore different facets of my upbringing and my life and try to combine these things.Notes and references from this episode: @eatchofood - Kristina Cho on Instagram  EatChoFood.com - home pageMooncakes & Milk Bread, by Kristina Cho (HarperCollins, 2021)“Cecilia Chiang, Who Brought Authentic Chinese Food to America, Dies at 100,” by William Grimes, NY TimesWildcat Canyon Regional Park, Richmond, CACantonese-style Tomato Egg - Eat Cho FoodEastern Bakery - San FranciscoPhoenix Bakery - Los AngelesAli Wong - home pageRuth Asawa - home page=====Produced, hosted and edited by Stu VanAirsdaleTheme music: Sounds SupremeTwitter: @WhatCaliforniaSubstack newsletter: whatiscalifornia.substack.comSupport What is California? on Patreon: patreon.com/whatiscalifornia  Email: hello@whatiscalifornia.comPlease subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. And if you liked What is California?, please rate and review What is California? on Apple Podcasts! It helps new listeners find the show.

Michelle Hy's polyamory advocacy work (@polyamorouswhileasian) on the political intersection between relationships and race, sex positivity, and body neutrality is well known to many. In this episode we discuss: - Michelle's very sudden introduction to polyamory at 18 years old - Misconceptions in mainstream polyamorous narratives - Handling boundaries and expectations with Asian parents - Why my mother is less accepting of my bisexuality than my cousin's lesbianism - Handling fetishisation of Asianness in dating, and where we draw the line between attraction and exoticisation and much more. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT FOLLOW US: Leanne (@polyphiliablog): Instagram | Facebook | Tiktok | Twitter | Youtube | Patreon | Website | Shop Michelle (@polyamorouswhileasian): Instagram | Website

#47: Disability Pedagogy and Accessibility Advocacy (殘疾教育和無障礙宣傳) Janelle Chu Capwell (朱自立) joins us for a conversation on: - Growing up in the San Gabriel Valley (the SGV) - Being a PhD candidate at the University of Arizona in English Composition and Rhetoric - Her research interests: disability pedagogy and hiring student workers with disabilities - Finding and sharing resources for the hard of hearing community at college (ex: CART captioning at Univ of Arizona) - This immersive cultural project ("the Reciprocity Project"): using BiteSized Taiwanese to learn Taiwanese and will be documenting her learnings on her blog (and sharing with us here on the podcast!) - Unpacking the privilege of choosing when to disclose her Asianness and Biracialness Follow Janelle's Reciprocity Project at: https://thistaiwanesehokki.wixsite.com/website Contact Janelle at: thistaiwanesehokkienproject@gmail.com Thank you to Marissa for joining us for the conversation and helping provide captions! Link to video of this episode on YouTube w/captions in English and option to translate into Chinese. Link to full transcript of this episode: Resources: https://otter.ai/ https://www.apalon.com/clipomatic.html https://www.rev.com/ *** Say hi! 來打招呼！ Social media 社群: @twdiaspora on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. Show notes 主網頁: www.taiwanesediaspora.com. Email 電子信箱: hello@taiwanesediaspora.com. Support 贊助: https://ko-fi.com/twdiaspora and https://bookshop.org/shop/twdiaspora --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/twdiaspora/support

// Meet Katie Cadamatre (@tigerboomcreative on IG)Instagram / Facebook / WebsiteShow Resources Hello Korea Box: Use code: JANCHI15 to save 15% on your order! In this episode we talk about: Intro and Announcements: 0:00 Katie's Adoption Story: 7:40 What's in a name? 12:57 College Roomate & Exposure to Asianness: 17:55 Going to Korea: 20:25 To Korea w/ Family: 32:23 Hiking in Heels: 35:04 Is Katie's dad a GIANT? 36:37 Who cares about speaking Korean? 37:38 Shifting Identities over time: 39:09 Korean & Italian culture is similar, apparently: 40:50 That good, slow work of self-confidence: 42:35 Talk Tigerboom to me: 45:20 The Tigerboom Janchi Show Collab: 50:53 Korean adoptees take a unique approach to our roots: 55:46 What does Being Korean mean to you? 57:46 Plugs! 1:03:31 ---// Support/Follow the Show! Online at janchishow.comSupport the show at janchishow.com/support Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @janchishowJoin our Group! janchishow.com/afterparty Watch our Youtube Videos The Janchi Show Quick BioWe're three Korean-American Adoptees spread out around the country and each of us are at different stages in life. We'll talk about the Korean-American adoptee experience and learn more about our shared culture, usually with food. And it won't just be the three of us; each week we'll have other adoptees from all over the world joining us to talk about what makes us similar and what makes us unique. So join the party!// Meet the Janchi Boys!Nathan NowackNathan was adopted from Seoul and raised in a small town in Oklahoma by a loving family and adopted sister.  After college in Colorado he later moved to Los Angeles to pursue a digital media career and eventually started 2 photography companies.  He has a wife and 3 kids and has reconnected with his biological family in 2014.Connect with Nathan! Website: http://www.nathannowack.com LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/nathann/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/nowackphoto Patrick ArmstrongPatrick was adopted from Seoul and raised in a small(er than Nathan's) town in Indiana. After dropping out of college, he travelled around, working a variety of jobs before co-founding the All Times Are Local Foundation with his adopted sister in Chicago. He currently lives in Indianapolis with his fiancé and is 7 seconds into his journey of exploring his Korean-American adoptee identity.Connect with Patrick! Website: http://www.alltimesarelocal.org LinkedIn: http://linkedin/in/patrickarmstrong219 Instagram: http://instagram.com/patrickintheworld K.J. RoelkeKJ was adopted from Daegu and raised in Dallas, Texas with his two biological, older siblings and his younger sister, adopted from Russia. He graduated from Greenville College and has served as the Worship & Creative Director at Schweitzer Church in Springfield, Missouri since then. He is married, with no children (yet!), and has been on his journey of discovery since 2015.Connect with K.J.! Website: http://kj.roelke.info/ LinkedIn: http://linkedin/in/kjroelke Instagram: http://instagram.com/kjroelke // Listen to/Watch The Janchi Show on all major platforms: Apple: http://janchishow.com/apple Spotify: http://janchishow.com/spotify Youtube: http://janchishow.com/youtube // Join the Asian Podcast Network: Website: https://asianpodcastnetwork.com/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/asianpodcastnetwork/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asianpodcastnetwork/  // The Janchi Show is produced by Just Like Media: Website: http://www.justlikemedia.com Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/justlikemedia Executive Producer: Jerry WonCreative Director: Michelle NamAudio & Video Engineer: K.J. Roelke

Happy Asian Heritage Month! This week Erin + Erica speak with Tanya Chen, a reporter with BuzzFeed News on Anti-Asian hate crimes and Asian-American identity. Find Tanya on Twitter: @tanyachen Tanya's work on this subject: 1) https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyachen/self-defense-weapons-asian-american-women   2) https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyachen/asian-women-fetish-racist-atlanta-shootings   3) https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyachen/asian-americans-reclaiming-native-first-names -   Connect with the pod: Twitter: https://twitter.com/badandbitchy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/badandbitchypod/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/badandbpodcast/ Email: badandbpod@gmail.com  Stay bitchy.

Jax and Jason discuss their love of Good Girls, The Sound of Metal, and Judas and the Black Messiah. Netflix has discovered Jax’s Asianness, resulting in her viewing of Vincenzo and Minari. And Jason’s discoveries the chasm of difference between The Little Things and A Map of Tiny Perfect Things.

In this episode we discuss the current rise in violence towards the Asian community as well as highlight how this violence and anti-Asian racism is nothing new. We also talk about what it looks like to have conversations about anti-Asianness in Black and Brown communities.   A special thanks to several of our Asian American friends who spoke into this and helped us shape this episode.   Orgs to support/follow: Asian American Christian Collaborative (@aachristcollab) Oakland Chinatown Coalition Stop AAPI Hate (@stopaapihate)   Host: Alethea Lamberson & Matthew Melendrez  Producer: Caleb Dea Social Media & Marketing: Jazzlyn Venkataya Designer: Cameron Stingley   Follow us on IG: @therolldownpodcast   The Roll Down podcast is part of the Chasing Justice Podcast Network. To find out more, visit chasingjustice.com

Dr Michelle Myers is one half the spoken word duo called Yellow Rage. They are two Philadelphia-based Asian American female spoken word poets, made up of Michelle Myers, who holds a PhD from Temple University, and Catzie Vilayphonh. Their poems are self-written and are often based on personal experiences, focussing on social and political issues relevant to the Asian American community and aiming to challenge common misconceptions of Asianness. Dr Michelle Myers is currently a mentor and Professor at The Community College of Philadelphia. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

An Indian girl and Filipino boy walk into a recording studio and make a podcast. A question that lingers between them: is it okay for Asians to talk about race? For the first episode of Influx, Amreen and Kyle delve into questions of Asianness as it pertains to their lives and the stories told by mainstream media. Anchoring the conversation is the book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Korean American poet and writer Cathy Park Hong. A memoir and cultural criticism on the nameless feelings of guilt and erasure embedded in the Asian American experience. For a section in the novel, Hong explores the glorified whiteness of Wes Anderson films. And look, we love the guy but it’s about time that he be dragged for his outright appropriation of Asian culture in a film like The Darjeeling Limited. This episode gets messy and vulnerable. Listen along with love and compassion as we welcome you to this journey with open arms. Thanks for being here with us. — This episode of Influx was recorded and produced in Toronto by Amreen Kullar and Kyle Jarencio in October 2020. You can find them online at @amreenk_ and @fragilekyle. Our intro music is by Boy Garcon and our cover art is by Andrew O’Brien. Read an excerpt of Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong here: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/cathyparkhong/cathy-park-hong-minor-feelings-bad-english and we urge you to purchase it from your fave local bookstore. Pirate the Darjeeling Limited? Idk reparations.

How I felt about the Black Pink documentary and some yikes thoughts on being an Asian American woman.

A dilemma we have as BBCs is being torn between British culture and Asian culture. So we decided to put our "Asianness" to the test!⁣ ⁣ In episode 8 "How Asian Are You?" we talk about:⁣

Tony grew up in the U.S., finding solace in his Asianness while often feeling like an outsider. After studying abroad, he began to wonder: was it possible he could find a greater sense of belonging back in his family’s home country? To find out, Tony explores this question with Jacob, a Chinese-American architect who lived as an expatriate in China. Send questions, comments, and episode ideas to goldandgreat@kollaboration.org. Follow Kollab SF: Twitter: @kollabsf Instagram: @kollabsf Facebook: www.facebook.com/kollab.sf Website: kollabsf.org/podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gold-and-great/message

A film's "Asian" because an Asian directed it? Then, Mission Impossible isn't American, since Alibaba Pictures invested in it. ... Say what now? Today, my friends Jacqueline, Crystal and I talk about #OscarsSoWhite and "Asianness" in the acclaimed and multi award-winning Korean film, Parasite (2019). Music credits: Morning Love_Master - LDN calling Audio editing credits to Timothy Belen Resources: Cameron Lee's article: https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2020/02/the-bittersweet-paradox-of-parasites-oscar-win Alibaba and Mission Impossible: https://www.alizila.com/secret-weapon-for-new-mission-impossible-in-china-alibaba/ How do I tag Dr. Lewis Mayo from the University of Melbourne here?

Subscribe to the podcast here!Learn more about the stuff we talk about in this episode here:Mina YangMina’s article that became a chapter in her book: East Meets West in the Concert Hall: Asians and Classical Music in the Century of Imperialism, Post-Colonialism, and Multiculturalism. 5:41 – How did Western Classical Music become so prevalent in East Asia? 7:00 – How piano manufacturing in Japan mirrored the rise of the middle class in Europe and how the piano became a symbol of Western gentility, domesticity, and was equated with femininity. 7:35 – How learning Western Classical Music was a way into Western modernity and parity with the West as a way to exhibit middle class status. 9:27 – Anecdotal evidence of why there are so many young, Asian, female violinists in classical music. 12:55 – The stereotype of the “model minority” that East Asians experience in conservatories and the discomfort with the idea of racism again Asians.13:43 – How Asians are perceived as “robotic” and “lacking soul” plus the blatantly racist attitudes against Asians in classical music. How Asians in the US are considered both the model minority and an invisible minority and how racism against Asians is not perceived as problematic as racism against other P.O.C.14:32 – The slippery nature of the implicit bias against East Asians within classical music and the dominant culture; “yes, you are part of [the culture] but then you’re really not part of it.” The experiences of “secondary whiteness.”15:12 – How the emphasis of the myth of the “universal” nature of Western classical music discourages conversations around race and politics. 16:51 – How do we create spaces for difficult conversations around racism again Asians in classical music? 19:34 – How Western classical music was considered a symbol of Western middle – upper class status and how East Asians emulated this as a vital part of attempts at assimilation. 24:11 – How Asians’ participation in classical music reinforces the stereotype of the “model minority”. 24:43 – Far East Movement and how they hid their Asianness and perhaps felt the need to do so to achieve success in popular music. 26:22 – The stereotyping of “Asian bodies” in pop music, Psy, BTS, and Kpop. 27:50 – Yuja Wang and countering the fetishization of Asian women in classical music. The surge of Asians in classical music and how this has the potential to uproot the idealization of Western classical music as “sacred” and exclusive. 30:59 – Finding the balance between tradition and individualism in classical music. How not really being accepted can free you up to be innovative. Why you can’t just practice and expect a career to magically manifest. 32:13 – The tension of leaving behind something that you’ve dedicated so much of your life to. 33:15 – How there’s no “playbook” anymore for classical musicians. 34:21 – How do we create community and support as we seek to pivot from a classical musician’s life or training? 34:54 – How classical music training does not support being improvisational and flexible both in music and in life and how it perhaps does musicians a disservice. 36:40 – Why we should let go of the “conservatory mindset.” 37:14 – How classical music is just part of the musical landscape and is capable of cultural exchange. See Silk Road Ensemble. 37:58 – Why sometimes I’m pissed off by my training but also why classical music training prepares us for diverse paths to career success. 40:43 – Why playing in a professional orchestra can be less fulfilling than one might think. 42:16 – Why there is nothing like a classical music training to teach discipline and work ethic and why classical musicians have all the skills needed to be successful in any number of career paths. Also, why the myth of “sunken costs” can get us stuck. 43:53 – Making space for everything: community, beauty, and balance.

Hey everyone. I hope you are doing well. The weather has changed slightly here in Zhuahi...it feels like LA at the moment, although not a dry. I've been recently falling in love with the tropical breeze here. I am still coming to terms with living in a tropical place as opposed to visiting it temporarily. The past weekend I traveled to Xi'an and learned a great deal of Chinese history given the city's long geographic and historic importance. The silk road starts there and many of China's leader came from or went through Xi'an in their beginnings. I got to see the Terracota Army, which is an 8,000 life-sized army recreated to guard the Qin Dynasty's first Emperor in the afterlife. It was massive and I temporarily made me rethink my own art.Anyway. Today, I am speaking with Sarnt Utamachote. Born in Thailand, Sarnt moved to Berlin in 2014 where he has been rediscovered himself and his ‘essence’ of Asianness within a European culture ever since. He describes himself as a filmmaker-photographer-artist-poet-writer-clubkid-culture enthusiast. Sarnt also organizes Thai film festivals around Berlin and our circles overlapped during my time there. I got to catch Sarnt before I left for China and we talked about navigating cities, k-pop, white queer German filmmakers, and Asian masculinities. I hope you enjoy this.Photo Credit: Jessica Sattabongkot Links Mentioned:* Sarnt's Website* Sarnt's Instagram* Yukio Mishima* Berlinale  Follow Seeing Color:* Seeing Color Website* Subscribe on Apple Podcasts* Facebook* Twitter* Instagram

Chris (born April 24) is well into his career, but has yet to have any songs about adoption or coffee..

In this bonus episode, the Jilted Indians talk about Gurinder Chadha's "Blinded By the Light" a coming of age story about Pakistani-British immigrant family and Lulu Wang's "The Farewell" a story about a family's lie to their dying matriarch. SPOILER ALERTS abound as Miranda and Puja talk about representation, the "Asianness" of these films, and celebrate watching movies written and directed by Asian women. Go see these movies. Special Note: these films inspired a whole Jilted Indian Pod episode on internalized suffering. Show Notes here: https://jiltedindianpod.com/2019/10/29/s3-be3-you-gotta-see-these-movies/ Connect with us @JiltedIndianPod on Twitter and Instagram. Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JiltedIndianPod Like and Subscribe on your podcatcher of choice. Follow Anju: @FountofSarcasm Follow Miranda: @MirandaGeorge Follow Puja: @Meanrice

Tuesday 28 August 2018with Saranya, Lauren, Ayan 7.00 am  Acknowledgement of Country7.05 am  News headlines  7.15 am Deepanjana Pal, Indian author and writer who is in town for the Melbourne Writer's Festival chats to Lauren about #MeToo and feminism in India.7.30 am  Kara Keys from the ACTU joins Anya to discuss the importance of and need for paid Family and Domestic Violence (FDV) leave and how to push for this to happen in Australia.  7.45 am  Alternative NewsThe team discuss reproductive coercion and how forced pregnancies and abortions and birth control sabotage deny women control over their bodies.Conversation about 'Crazy Rich Asians' - a new film that is raising interesting questions about representation, colourism, and 'Asianness' in the West. 8.00 am  Dr Juliet Watson, Lecturer in Urban Housing and Homelessness and the Deputy Director of the Unison Housing Research Lab at RMIT University, joined Anya to talk about homeless women and 'survival sex' - why this is happening, how this issue affects young women disproportionately and what kind of structural changes we need to see in the housing market to tackle this problem.  8.20 am  Ayan speaks to Laila from The Community Grocer.  Laila shares exciting news about their upcoming crowdfunding campaign.    Songsartist: Macy Graysong: Stillartist: OKENYO Feat. Miss Blanks & Jesswar  song: Woman's World  artist: Mojo Jujusong:  Native Tongue

Sheng Wang came to my apartment to talk about the Asian American experience. Well, he came over to do a podcast, and then I asked him all about Chinatown, and then it just becomes a whole podcast about Asianness.