I suppose my previous ideas and thoughts about culture and identity still hold. I grew up in two different cultures, so growing up I got to experience many different cultures, holidays, types of people, etc. I remember distinctly through elementary school, if our culture had a holiday coming up, we could bring it up to our teacher and they would let us lead some kind of basic celebration. So, as a Chinese American, I celebrated the normal American/Western holidays, such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, but we’d also celebrate Chinese New Year, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Rosh Hashanah, etc. Additionally, for high school I went to a private school that was 50% POC, so there I was exposed to an even more diverse group of people. In connection to the JVN podcast episode, people who grew up in rural America almost definitely did not get the chance to experience the sheer diversity in cultures or people that I have. They generally grow up in their communities, surrounded by people who are similar to them, so they don’t really learn how to empathize with others as well as someone who grew up multicultural.