Digital Strategy

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.

Here is the link to our podcast promo and script. As for progress, we’ve fleshed out our idea a little more and gotten some ideas of who to interview, but we would need to meet again in order to better draft a treatment, production schedule, and how to go about structuring the podcast.

I listened to the episode titled “Is Deep Canvassing the Serum America Needs?” I generally don’t like to listen to these kinds of podcasts, ones where two people just talk for the entire time. With these kinds of podcasts, they’re generally not as thoroughly edited as something like 99% Invisible, which incoporates clips from interviews to help weave a story, rather than just plunking down a conversation between two people with advertisements in between. The only podcast I can listen to like this is Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, only because Conan is one of my favorite comedians of all time.

I enjoyed listening to the parts of the podcast I heard. In high school, I was often forced to have discussions regarding race, privilege, the whole nine yards, so generally I’m pretty comfortable talking about race, whether it be my own or others. However, I will say phrases like “think” and “generally” more when I discuss other races, but I’m still willing to. I guess I never realized I had the privilege of discussing this stuff before, whereas a lot of people haven’t, so not everyone’s as open to discussing race. Listening to people have their conversations was pretty fascinating, since I don’t have as much of the perspective of the discomfort people face when talking about race.