Growing Up Multicultural

About Growing Up Multicultural

What is life like growing up in a multicultural environment? How do people of mixed heritage navigate their racial identities? Is there pressure to fit into one culture or another? We share stories of people who grew up in countries where they might look different than those around them.

Publisher

Bill Zhou

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Nov 2021

Latest episode

6 Dec 2021

Latest episodes

4 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Dec 2021

   Ep. 4: Living in Trinidad, US, Canada, UK, and Switzerland

   Reynold is a Trini who grew up in North America for the first decade of his life before moving to Trinidad. He shares his experience growing up in the melting pot of Trinidad where the cadet program was a large part of his life. He later moved to the UK where he built a career that sometimes faced challenges of nepotism over meritocracy.

2. 

   19 Nov 2021

   Ep. 3: Australian born Chinese, growing up in Perth, racism, and the Metaverse

   Chu is an AuBC, Australian Born Chinese. But he also identifies as a Malaysian Chinese. He grew up as a minority in Perth and is currently living in Singapore.

3. 

   12 Nov 2021

   Ep. 2: Chinese in Malaysia and crypto

   Alvern is a Chinese Malaysian who has worked and lived in China and Singapore. He currently lives in Melbourne and shares his experiences growing up in Malaysia as an ethnic Chinese.

4. 

   7 Nov 2021

   Ep. 1: From Shanghai to LA in the 90s

   Phil is from mainland China and immigrated to the US with his family in the late 80's. He shares his story of moving from Shanghai to LA and the immigrant father's role as the provider of the family.

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