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But sometimes at these feasts, conflicts arise unexpectedly, especially conflicts related to race and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this week's episode of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\">So Well Spoken\u003c/a>, we discuss how some folks navigate the cross-cultural challenges that arise around this time of year with NPR's \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/2100211/karen-grigsby-bates\">Karen Grigsby Bates\u003c/a> and San Francisco-based comedian \u003ca href=\"http://www.lydiapopovich.com/\">Lydia Popovich\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234423835\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height='166' iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>The Tamale Factory\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Lydia Popovich's work focuses partly on her life as a woman of Mexican and Russian heritage. She says she identifies culturally as Mexican. For years she and some of her friends ran a \"white people tamale factory\" around the holidays. They called it Tamale Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At its core, Tamale Day was really about a group of friends creating new traditions inspired by our own personal traditions. ... While we absolutely berated and indentured our Caucasian friends for a day of 'white labor,' the event was based on the fact that food + family = fun \u003cem>whatever\u003c/em> your color,\" says Popovich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all started when Popovich and her Mexican friends began making tamales together, just like their moms and grandmothers used to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10769534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/406676_10150459472412211_325776310_n-e1448322514747.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10769534\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/406676_10150459472412211_325776310_n-e1448322514747-400x247.jpg\" alt=\"For years San Francisco-based comedian Lydia Popovich and her friends ran a multicultural tamale factory around the holidays.\" width=\"400\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/406676_10150459472412211_325776310_n-e1448322514747-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/406676_10150459472412211_325776310_n-e1448322514747-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/406676_10150459472412211_325776310_n-e1448322514747.jpg 958w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For years San Francisco-based comedian Lydia Popovich and her friends ran a multicultural tamale factory around the holidays. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy of Audrey Le)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We all had [an] interest in making tamales together and learning how to create those traditions in our everyday life without having to be with our immediate families,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon enough, friends at work found out. \"I heard you make tamales. I would love to learn, it sounds so fascinating,\" they would say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Popovich and her friends were tired of people asking them about tamales and how to make them, so they decided to invite them over and teach them how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The whole deal was if you didn't roll them, you couldn't take them home,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They continued the tradition for 10 years, and eventually people of all ethnicities showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the show, a lot of listeners emailed to say that they felt insulted by Popovich's comments about how white people approach the topic of tamales and the notion of a \"white people tamale factory.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One listener wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This woman is so racist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm amazed that you are allowing this woman to go on like she is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope you get a lot a lot of complaints about this show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does she not know that this station and all others broadcasting this show are created and run by white people?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>—Emily Jencks\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This listener makes an excellent point: Yes, there are a lot of white people in public radio. In fact, white people own and run the majority of our most powerful institutions. As a result, most spaces -- media, professional and commercial -- cater to white audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/So-Well-Spoken-Sidebar.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>Candid conversations about race and identity with Joshua Johnson\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">Read more stories\u003c/a> in this series\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tune in Nov. 23 at 11 a.m. on 88.5 or \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\" target=\"_blank\">listen live\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This is something that most people of color wake up and deal with every single day. That means explaining their culture, making other people feel comfortable and finding ways to adapt or fit in. That's what this show is for. It provides a space to talk about the clumsy, messed-up and beautiful way that we approach all of this race stuff, together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just to emphasize, the Tamale Day celebration was not anti-white (neither is this show). It's simply a space where people of color were in charge and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/24/how-to-acknowledge-prejudice-and-white-privilege-without-the-guilt\">white privilege\u003c/a> was acknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a diverse group of friends, which is beautiful. Looking back at these pictures reminds me how fortunate I am to live in the Bay Area and call these people friends,\" says Popovich.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Rule #1: General Conversation Only\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, not all holiday celebrations are the ideal forums for cultural exchange that one might hope for. One caller, John, shares his memories of what he says went down as the worst Thanksgiving of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had a guest whose beliefs did not gel with many people in the family. \"He insulted just about everyone at the table at some point,\" he recalls. \"What we did foolishly is we all took the bait. And so we confronted him point for point, word for word. It made the afternoon and evening very uncomfortable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Grigsby Bates, a correspondent for NPR's “Code Switch” and the author of an etiquette guide, wonders why he was invited in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If this is someone who is so abrasive and so insulting and so Neanderthal in the opinions that he's expressing -- and you know that it puts everyone else at the dinner on edge, and it's sort of a dark cloud on the whole day -- do you have to have them?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John says it’s very complicated. The guest was brought by a family member. This is why the etiquette books advise to never talk about politics, money and religion at the dinner table, says Bates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the caller ever encounters the situation again, he says he will be sure to avoid conflict by keeping it light and asking questions about the holiday such as, \"What are you thankful for? How are you enjoying your meal?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>'Why Do You Have to Make Her Feel Like an Outsider?'\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>When it comes to situations with family members, sometimes a solution isn't too far off. Amy Torres of Vacaville is Chinese-American and her husband, Ben Torres, is Mexican-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Christmas Torres and her husband surprised her mother-in-law with a digital camera, and a very special picture: an ultrasound of their new baby. Torres says everyone was jumping up and down, and sobbing in reaction to the photos. But she found her sister-in-law's response off-putting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, do you know what the gender is, or…?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I said, “No, it’s too early, I—we don’t know yet,” Torres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then her sister-in-law looked real hard at the ultrasound and said, “Well, it looks like the baby’s gonna be part Chinese.” And then everyone kind of, like, laughed or, I mean, I uncomfortably laughed, and so did my husband.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres says the comment made her feel like an outsider. It also bothered her husband, who doesn't appreciate how his family makes his wife feel like an outsider. When this kind of thing happened before, her husband would fire off an insult or a comeback. These days they just suck it up, go home and complain to each other for hours, just to help keep the peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Generally, it’s recurring with family members, I think because the comfort level is higher, so they are more likely to say things,\" Amy Torres says. \"I have never heard any of our friends say, like, anything regarding our races or -- but then, it kind of makes me sad, because I’m like, “Maybe they’re thinking it.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the incident, her sister-in-law, Marlene Torres, told a So Well Spoken producer, \"I have full intentions of discussing this with her and letting her know I have nothing but love and acceptance for her. I have all the respect in the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, the holidays are a time for us to come together, not to hash out our conflicts. To ensure smooth sailing this season, keep in mind these golden rules from our guests. Popovich recommends taking plenty of deep breaths and having some whiskey, while Bates says, \"Keep an open mind and express curiosity.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Dealing with people across cultures during the holidays can spark conflict, compassion and even comedy. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1463788810,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":39,"wordCount":1321},"headData":{"title":"What's Off the Table During Holiday Dinner? | KQED","description":"Dealing with people across cultures during the holidays can spark conflict, compassion and even comedy. 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But sometimes at these feasts, conflicts arise unexpectedly, especially conflicts related to race and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this week's episode of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\">So Well Spoken\u003c/a>, we discuss how some folks navigate the cross-cultural challenges that arise around this time of year with NPR's \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/2100211/karen-grigsby-bates\">Karen Grigsby Bates\u003c/a> and San Francisco-based comedian \u003ca href=\"http://www.lydiapopovich.com/\">Lydia Popovich\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234423835&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234423835'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>The Tamale Factory\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Lydia Popovich's work focuses partly on her life as a woman of Mexican and Russian heritage. She says she identifies culturally as Mexican. For years she and some of her friends ran a \"white people tamale factory\" around the holidays. They called it Tamale Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At its core, Tamale Day was really about a group of friends creating new traditions inspired by our own personal traditions. ... While we absolutely berated and indentured our Caucasian friends for a day of 'white labor,' the event was based on the fact that food + family = fun \u003cem>whatever\u003c/em> your color,\" says Popovich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all started when Popovich and her Mexican friends began making tamales together, just like their moms and grandmothers used to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10769534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/406676_10150459472412211_325776310_n-e1448322514747.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10769534\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/406676_10150459472412211_325776310_n-e1448322514747-400x247.jpg\" alt=\"For years San Francisco-based comedian Lydia Popovich and her friends ran a multicultural tamale factory around the holidays.\" width=\"400\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/406676_10150459472412211_325776310_n-e1448322514747-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/406676_10150459472412211_325776310_n-e1448322514747-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/406676_10150459472412211_325776310_n-e1448322514747.jpg 958w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For years San Francisco-based comedian Lydia Popovich and her friends ran a multicultural tamale factory around the holidays. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy of Audrey Le)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We all had [an] interest in making tamales together and learning how to create those traditions in our everyday life without having to be with our immediate families,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon enough, friends at work found out. \"I heard you make tamales. I would love to learn, it sounds so fascinating,\" they would say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Popovich and her friends were tired of people asking them about tamales and how to make them, so they decided to invite them over and teach them how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The whole deal was if you didn't roll them, you couldn't take them home,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They continued the tradition for 10 years, and eventually people of all ethnicities showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the show, a lot of listeners emailed to say that they felt insulted by Popovich's comments about how white people approach the topic of tamales and the notion of a \"white people tamale factory.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One listener wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This woman is so racist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm amazed that you are allowing this woman to go on like she is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope you get a lot a lot of complaints about this show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does she not know that this station and all others broadcasting this show are created and run by white people?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>—Emily Jencks\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This listener makes an excellent point: Yes, there are a lot of white people in public radio. In fact, white people own and run the majority of our most powerful institutions. As a result, most spaces -- media, professional and commercial -- cater to white audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/So-Well-Spoken-Sidebar.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>Candid conversations about race and identity with Joshua Johnson\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">Read more stories\u003c/a> in this series\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tune in Nov. 23 at 11 a.m. on 88.5 or \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\" target=\"_blank\">listen live\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This is something that most people of color wake up and deal with every single day. That means explaining their culture, making other people feel comfortable and finding ways to adapt or fit in. That's what this show is for. It provides a space to talk about the clumsy, messed-up and beautiful way that we approach all of this race stuff, together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just to emphasize, the Tamale Day celebration was not anti-white (neither is this show). It's simply a space where people of color were in charge and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/24/how-to-acknowledge-prejudice-and-white-privilege-without-the-guilt\">white privilege\u003c/a> was acknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a diverse group of friends, which is beautiful. Looking back at these pictures reminds me how fortunate I am to live in the Bay Area and call these people friends,\" says Popovich.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Rule #1: General Conversation Only\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, not all holiday celebrations are the ideal forums for cultural exchange that one might hope for. One caller, John, shares his memories of what he says went down as the worst Thanksgiving of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had a guest whose beliefs did not gel with many people in the family. \"He insulted just about everyone at the table at some point,\" he recalls. \"What we did foolishly is we all took the bait. And so we confronted him point for point, word for word. It made the afternoon and evening very uncomfortable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Grigsby Bates, a correspondent for NPR's “Code Switch” and the author of an etiquette guide, wonders why he was invited in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If this is someone who is so abrasive and so insulting and so Neanderthal in the opinions that he's expressing -- and you know that it puts everyone else at the dinner on edge, and it's sort of a dark cloud on the whole day -- do you have to have them?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John says it’s very complicated. The guest was brought by a family member. This is why the etiquette books advise to never talk about politics, money and religion at the dinner table, says Bates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the caller ever encounters the situation again, he says he will be sure to avoid conflict by keeping it light and asking questions about the holiday such as, \"What are you thankful for? How are you enjoying your meal?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>'Why Do You Have to Make Her Feel Like an Outsider?'\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>When it comes to situations with family members, sometimes a solution isn't too far off. Amy Torres of Vacaville is Chinese-American and her husband, Ben Torres, is Mexican-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Christmas Torres and her husband surprised her mother-in-law with a digital camera, and a very special picture: an ultrasound of their new baby. Torres says everyone was jumping up and down, and sobbing in reaction to the photos. But she found her sister-in-law's response off-putting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, do you know what the gender is, or…?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I said, “No, it’s too early, I—we don’t know yet,” Torres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then her sister-in-law looked real hard at the ultrasound and said, “Well, it looks like the baby’s gonna be part Chinese.” And then everyone kind of, like, laughed or, I mean, I uncomfortably laughed, and so did my husband.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres says the comment made her feel like an outsider. It also bothered her husband, who doesn't appreciate how his family makes his wife feel like an outsider. When this kind of thing happened before, her husband would fire off an insult or a comeback. These days they just suck it up, go home and complain to each other for hours, just to help keep the peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Generally, it’s recurring with family members, I think because the comfort level is higher, so they are more likely to say things,\" Amy Torres says. \"I have never heard any of our friends say, like, anything regarding our races or -- but then, it kind of makes me sad, because I’m like, “Maybe they’re thinking it.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the incident, her sister-in-law, Marlene Torres, told a So Well Spoken producer, \"I have full intentions of discussing this with her and letting her know I have nothing but love and acceptance for her. I have all the respect in the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, the holidays are a time for us to come together, not to hash out our conflicts. To ensure smooth sailing this season, keep in mind these golden rules from our guests. Popovich recommends taking plenty of deep breaths and having some whiskey, while Bates says, \"Keep an open mind and express curiosity.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10769158/whats-off-the-table-during-holiday-dinner","authors":["195"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_18583"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_19970","news_18562"],"featImg":"news_10770451","label":"news_6944"},"news_10765751":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10765751","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10765751","score":null,"sort":[1448297287000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"around-the-bay-area-a-diverse-range-of-holiday-traditions","title":"Around the Bay Area, a Diverse Range of Holiday Traditions","publishDate":1448297287,"format":"standard","headTitle":"So Well Spoken | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>It's that time of year again -- the holidays -- and for a lot of people that means many different things, some positive and some negative. Within our houses and communities, we gather to celebrate in different ways. Here's how some around the Bay Area are spending this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234423835\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height='166' iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/So-Well-Spoken-Sidebar.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>Candid conversations about race and identity with Joshua Johnson\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">Read more stories\u003c/a> in this series\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tune in Nov. 23 at 11 a.m. on 88.5 or \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\" target=\"_blank\">listen live\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch4>Jewish Boxing Day\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>One woman shared the origin story of her own unique family holiday. She was raised Christian and her husband is Jewish. Neither are particularly religious but they embraced and celebrated their respective holidays, Hanukkah and Christmas. Early in the marriage, she was worried about the potential point of conflict between them around this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Probably the first or second time my husband joined me for my big family Christmas, he admitted to me that as much as he enjoyed celebrating with us, there was one thing he really missed — and that was going out for Chinese food and a movie on Christmas Day!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year, acknowledging how much he missed his Jewish Christmas, we celebrated the inaugural Jewish Boxing Day—and then every year, for us, December 26 was set aside for Chinese food and a movie. When our first son came along in 2009, we found it was sometimes challenging to book a babysitter for the 26th— so we implemented Jewish Boxing Day (Observed)— one day within the week after Christmas, reserved for Chinese food and a movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, we look forward to introducing the tradition to our son as we plan to try to check out the new Star Wars movie— ensuring Jewish Boxing Day (Observed) gets passed down to the next generation!\u003cbr>\n—Michaela C. Murphy\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But before you make plans to go see the new \"Star Wars\" movie featuring many leads of color — to some people's \u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/boycott-star-wars-vii-movement-833102\">chagrin\u003c/a>— there is another holiday just around the corner to consider: Thanksgiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>A Merry Un-Thanksgiving\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>As many of us know, the story of Turkey Day we learned in first grade is not how it actually went down. English and Dutch settlers massacred men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe. As a result, Thanksgiving certainly doesn’t render the same happy emotions and feelings of gratitude for everyone. Not following? Check out this video:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hzF4Ftjy0A&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thanksgiving morning, hundreds of indigenous people travel to Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay to honor their ancestors and advocate for the rights of their people in a sunrise ceremony. It’s commonly known as Un-Thanksgiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose resident Tamara Mozahuani Alvarado has developed a multicultural Un-Thanksgiving sunrise ceremony in San Jose for the last four years. It all started when she was “super pregnant” and didn’t feel like getting up at 2 a.m. to get on a boat on a cold November morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado wasn’t just thinking of herself, eight months into her pregnancy. She was also thinking about the people in wheelchairs or crutches. And those coming from places like Salinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10765910\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17480_12141666_10154253764095606_5896493922044439542_n-sfi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10765910\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17480_12141666_10154253764095606_5896493922044439542_n-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"Tamara Mozahuani Alvarado put together an Un-Thanksgiving ceremony in San Jose four years ago. \" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17480_12141666_10154253764095606_5896493922044439542_n-sfi.jpg 360w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17480_12141666_10154253764095606_5896493922044439542_n-sfi-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17480_12141666_10154253764095606_5896493922044439542_n-sfi-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17480_12141666_10154253764095606_5896493922044439542_n-sfi-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17480_12141666_10154253764095606_5896493922044439542_n-sfi-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17480_12141666_10154253764095606_5896493922044439542_n-sfi-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamara Mozahuani Alvarado put together an Un-Thanksgiving ceremony in San Jose four years ago. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tamara Alvarado )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people aren’t able to make it to Alcatraz because it’s really far away,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So four years ago, she started a small grass-roots ceremony in San Jose. She says about 75 came that first year. Last year there were 200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado says the event is very representative of San Jose's diversity. It honors multiple indigenous cultures and ethnic communities, and manifests around resistance to colonialism and mainstream consumerism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m saying let’s gather together in ceremony and honor the ancestors who are no longer here, who were killed ... our grandmothers and grandfathers, who kept these ceremonies alive to remember. Let's teach our children that different communities of color [can] work together,\" says Alvarado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also remembers going over her daughter’s Thanksgiving-themed homework packet, which depicted pilgrims and Indians happily working together and feasting together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"BZGrke5kRBLeonw67abINj6aT6dKHETN\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By and large our children are still being force-fed this mainstream commercial not-true story,” she says. “We aren’t diorama people. We are living people who celebrate our indigenous culture and holidays.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the ceremony, one of the elders reads a historical account of what actually happened around Thanksgiving. They move on to a pouring of libations, to honor the ancestors as observed in many West African traditions. Finally, native singers offer ceremonial songs and an Aztec dance group performs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fourth annual sunrise ceremony will be on Thanksgiving at 5:30 a.m. at the School of Arts and Culture at the Mexican Heritage Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Thanksgiving: 'This is Our Special Ritual'\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>For Pragrati Grover in Saratoga, Thanksgiving brings a different set of memories to mind. She came to the United States from New Delhi 27 years ago. Grover says she didn’t start celebrating Thanksgiving until her sons were in elementary school. She says they came home wanting to celebrate the American holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The challenge was, I’m a vegetarian. To do thanksgiving they wanted turkey,\" says Grover. \"I said, 'Well, I don’t know how to cook meat.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grover buys a ceremonial, precooked turkey for her sons at the grocery store. She says this year they will have cranberry sauce, butternut squash soup, pasta and salad. Grover says her family places an emphasis on cooking non-Indian food because the festival of Diwali usually falls pretty close to Thanksgiving, and they cook up a variety of Indian sweets and savory dishes for that occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also celebrate with friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are away from home, so friends have become family. We go on a walk together and take pictures. This is our special ritual,\" Grover says. The walk is followed by a meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10765957\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17477_IMG_6805.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10765957 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17477_IMG_6805.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Pragati's family and friends on Thanksgiving a few years ago.\" width=\"480\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17477_IMG_6805.JPG-qut.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17477_IMG_6805.JPG-qut-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pragati's family and friends on Thanksgiving a few years ago. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Pragati Grover)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We go around and say what [we are] I thankful for. My kids growing up here had a much more privileged life than I did in India. Now [that] they’re older, they are grateful for their family and for their education that they have received,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Happy Diwali from the U.S.\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>South Bay resident Kalpana Mohan says she tries to recreate the sound and fury of Diwali for her children, who grew up in the States. The Hindu festival Diwali is also known as the festival of lights. It lasts five days, and is usually celebrated between mid-October and mid-November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohan has fond memories celebrating here in the states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The night before Diwali morning, I set out new clothes on a tray by our prayer altar. I also keep out the plate of sweets I’ve prepared. In the morning, I light an oil lamp. I apply oil in my hair, massage my scalp and stand under the shower. Diwali is believed to be a time of new beginnings and we wear our new clothes that morning right after our shower and also taste the sweetmeats...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the festival centers around dolling up in new saris and kurtas, meeting and eating with friends on Diwali evening and during the weekend. One of our traditional Diwali potluck lunches with friends mimics a grand South Indian fare. Some 60 of us take turns serving one another as we sit down to eat out of banana leaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A traditional Diwali dinner with a set of friends from the north of India begins with a prayer. These friends hoard firecrackers that they've bought over the memorial day weekend. We pass around a bunch of handheld sparklers and also light crackers that burst into a shower of sparks when lit. The night ends with several rounds of teen patti, a gambling card game that is a tamer version of poker.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch4>Coasting by Christmas\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>For Oakland resident Elizheva Hurvich, the holiday season starts in September. By the time November and December hit, she's happy to just relax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We celebrate the Jewish holidays. To me that’s September. It’s the new year, Rosh Hashana. For me it's a month of holidays that involve going to synagogue, getting dressed up and making amends, trying to do better, praying and eating and holiday food,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Halloween and Thanksgiving roll around, things get a lot easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hanukkah is a time we celebrate, but I don’t think of it as a holiday,\" says Hurvich. \"It just doesn’t have the gravitas of the main holidays.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>African-Americans Find Identity in Kwanzaa\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10765961\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 354px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17478_AkuTeach1-sfi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10765961\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17478_AkuTeach1-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"Akubundu Amazu Lott began observing Kwanzaa when he had his children.\" width=\"354\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17478_AkuTeach1-sfi.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17478_AkuTeach1-sfi-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17478_AkuTeach1-sfi-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17478_AkuTeach1-sfi-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Akubundu Amazu Lott began observing Kwanzaa when he had his children. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Akubundu Amazu Lott )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Milpitas resident Akubundu Amazu Lott began to celebrate Kwanzaa when he had his children over 20 years ago. He says he wanted to give them something African-centered and meaningful, \"because everything they were getting was shallow and either excluded them or painted them in less than the image I wanted them to see themselves in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwanzaa, celebrated from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, is about bringing African-Americans closer to their African identity by celebrating seven principles of African Heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Jose, Keith Hames holds an annual Imani State Ceremony on the last day of Kwanzaa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we do is give folks the opportunity to apologize to anybody they feel like they’ve done wrong over the years so we can start off with a clean slate,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We'd love to hear stories about how your family spends this time of year. Be sure to comment below and keep the conversation going on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23KQEDSpoken&src=savs\">Twitter \u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Here's how some of our friends in the Bay Area choose to celebrate this time of year.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1449274799,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":1702},"headData":{"title":"Around the Bay Area, a Diverse Range of Holiday Traditions | KQED","description":"Here's how some of our friends in the Bay Area choose to celebrate this time of year.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Around the Bay Area, a Diverse Range of Holiday Traditions","datePublished":"2015-11-23T16:48:07.000Z","dateModified":"2015-12-05T00:19:59.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10765751 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10765751","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/23/around-the-bay-area-a-diverse-range-of-holiday-traditions/","disqusTitle":"Around the Bay Area, a Diverse Range of Holiday Traditions","path":"/news/10765751/around-the-bay-area-a-diverse-range-of-holiday-traditions","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's that time of year again -- the holidays -- and for a lot of people that means many different things, some positive and some negative. Within our houses and communities, we gather to celebrate in different ways. Here's how some around the Bay Area are spending this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234423835&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234423835'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/So-Well-Spoken-Sidebar.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>Candid conversations about race and identity with Joshua Johnson\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">Read more stories\u003c/a> in this series\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tune in Nov. 23 at 11 a.m. on 88.5 or \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\" target=\"_blank\">listen live\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch4>Jewish Boxing Day\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>One woman shared the origin story of her own unique family holiday. She was raised Christian and her husband is Jewish. Neither are particularly religious but they embraced and celebrated their respective holidays, Hanukkah and Christmas. Early in the marriage, she was worried about the potential point of conflict between them around this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Probably the first or second time my husband joined me for my big family Christmas, he admitted to me that as much as he enjoyed celebrating with us, there was one thing he really missed — and that was going out for Chinese food and a movie on Christmas Day!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year, acknowledging how much he missed his Jewish Christmas, we celebrated the inaugural Jewish Boxing Day—and then every year, for us, December 26 was set aside for Chinese food and a movie. 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English and Dutch settlers massacred men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe. As a result, Thanksgiving certainly doesn’t render the same happy emotions and feelings of gratitude for everyone. Not following? Check out this video:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/3hzF4Ftjy0A'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3hzF4Ftjy0A'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thanksgiving morning, hundreds of indigenous people travel to Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay to honor their ancestors and advocate for the rights of their people in a sunrise ceremony. It’s commonly known as Un-Thanksgiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose resident Tamara Mozahuani Alvarado has developed a multicultural Un-Thanksgiving sunrise ceremony in San Jose for the last four years. It all started when she was “super pregnant” and didn’t feel like getting up at 2 a.m. to get on a boat on a cold November morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado wasn’t just thinking of herself, eight months into her pregnancy. She was also thinking about the people in wheelchairs or crutches. And those coming from places like Salinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10765910\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17480_12141666_10154253764095606_5896493922044439542_n-sfi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10765910\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17480_12141666_10154253764095606_5896493922044439542_n-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"Tamara Mozahuani Alvarado put together an Un-Thanksgiving ceremony in San Jose four years ago. \" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17480_12141666_10154253764095606_5896493922044439542_n-sfi.jpg 360w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17480_12141666_10154253764095606_5896493922044439542_n-sfi-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17480_12141666_10154253764095606_5896493922044439542_n-sfi-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17480_12141666_10154253764095606_5896493922044439542_n-sfi-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17480_12141666_10154253764095606_5896493922044439542_n-sfi-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17480_12141666_10154253764095606_5896493922044439542_n-sfi-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamara Mozahuani Alvarado put together an Un-Thanksgiving ceremony in San Jose four years ago. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tamara Alvarado )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people aren’t able to make it to Alcatraz because it’s really far away,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So four years ago, she started a small grass-roots ceremony in San Jose. She says about 75 came that first year. Last year there were 200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado says the event is very representative of San Jose's diversity. It honors multiple indigenous cultures and ethnic communities, and manifests around resistance to colonialism and mainstream consumerism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m saying let’s gather together in ceremony and honor the ancestors who are no longer here, who were killed ... our grandmothers and grandfathers, who kept these ceremonies alive to remember. Let's teach our children that different communities of color [can] work together,\" says Alvarado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also remembers going over her daughter’s Thanksgiving-themed homework packet, which depicted pilgrims and Indians happily working together and feasting together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By and large our children are still being force-fed this mainstream commercial not-true story,” she says. “We aren’t diorama people. We are living people who celebrate our indigenous culture and holidays.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the ceremony, one of the elders reads a historical account of what actually happened around Thanksgiving. They move on to a pouring of libations, to honor the ancestors as observed in many West African traditions. Finally, native singers offer ceremonial songs and an Aztec dance group performs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fourth annual sunrise ceremony will be on Thanksgiving at 5:30 a.m. at the School of Arts and Culture at the Mexican Heritage Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Thanksgiving: 'This is Our Special Ritual'\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>For Pragrati Grover in Saratoga, Thanksgiving brings a different set of memories to mind. She came to the United States from New Delhi 27 years ago. Grover says she didn’t start celebrating Thanksgiving until her sons were in elementary school. She says they came home wanting to celebrate the American holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The challenge was, I’m a vegetarian. To do thanksgiving they wanted turkey,\" says Grover. \"I said, 'Well, I don’t know how to cook meat.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grover buys a ceremonial, precooked turkey for her sons at the grocery store. She says this year they will have cranberry sauce, butternut squash soup, pasta and salad. Grover says her family places an emphasis on cooking non-Indian food because the festival of Diwali usually falls pretty close to Thanksgiving, and they cook up a variety of Indian sweets and savory dishes for that occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also celebrate with friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are away from home, so friends have become family. We go on a walk together and take pictures. This is our special ritual,\" Grover says. The walk is followed by a meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10765957\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17477_IMG_6805.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10765957 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17477_IMG_6805.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Pragati's family and friends on Thanksgiving a few years ago.\" width=\"480\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17477_IMG_6805.JPG-qut.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17477_IMG_6805.JPG-qut-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pragati's family and friends on Thanksgiving a few years ago. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Pragati Grover)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We go around and say what [we are] I thankful for. My kids growing up here had a much more privileged life than I did in India. Now [that] they’re older, they are grateful for their family and for their education that they have received,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Happy Diwali from the U.S.\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>South Bay resident Kalpana Mohan says she tries to recreate the sound and fury of Diwali for her children, who grew up in the States. The Hindu festival Diwali is also known as the festival of lights. It lasts five days, and is usually celebrated between mid-October and mid-November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohan has fond memories celebrating here in the states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The night before Diwali morning, I set out new clothes on a tray by our prayer altar. I also keep out the plate of sweets I’ve prepared. In the morning, I light an oil lamp. I apply oil in my hair, massage my scalp and stand under the shower. Diwali is believed to be a time of new beginnings and we wear our new clothes that morning right after our shower and also taste the sweetmeats...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the festival centers around dolling up in new saris and kurtas, meeting and eating with friends on Diwali evening and during the weekend. One of our traditional Diwali potluck lunches with friends mimics a grand South Indian fare. Some 60 of us take turns serving one another as we sit down to eat out of banana leaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A traditional Diwali dinner with a set of friends from the north of India begins with a prayer. These friends hoard firecrackers that they've bought over the memorial day weekend. We pass around a bunch of handheld sparklers and also light crackers that burst into a shower of sparks when lit. The night ends with several rounds of teen patti, a gambling card game that is a tamer version of poker.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch4>Coasting by Christmas\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>For Oakland resident Elizheva Hurvich, the holiday season starts in September. By the time November and December hit, she's happy to just relax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We celebrate the Jewish holidays. To me that’s September. It’s the new year, Rosh Hashana. For me it's a month of holidays that involve going to synagogue, getting dressed up and making amends, trying to do better, praying and eating and holiday food,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Halloween and Thanksgiving roll around, things get a lot easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hanukkah is a time we celebrate, but I don’t think of it as a holiday,\" says Hurvich. \"It just doesn’t have the gravitas of the main holidays.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>African-Americans Find Identity in Kwanzaa\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10765961\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 354px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17478_AkuTeach1-sfi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10765961\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17478_AkuTeach1-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"Akubundu Amazu Lott began observing Kwanzaa when he had his children.\" width=\"354\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17478_AkuTeach1-sfi.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17478_AkuTeach1-sfi-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17478_AkuTeach1-sfi-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17478_AkuTeach1-sfi-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Akubundu Amazu Lott began observing Kwanzaa when he had his children. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Akubundu Amazu Lott )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Milpitas resident Akubundu Amazu Lott began to celebrate Kwanzaa when he had his children over 20 years ago. He says he wanted to give them something African-centered and meaningful, \"because everything they were getting was shallow and either excluded them or painted them in less than the image I wanted them to see themselves in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwanzaa, celebrated from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, is about bringing African-Americans closer to their African identity by celebrating seven principles of African Heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Jose, Keith Hames holds an annual Imani State Ceremony on the last day of Kwanzaa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we do is give folks the opportunity to apologize to anybody they feel like they’ve done wrong over the years so we can start off with a clean slate,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We'd love to hear stories about how your family spends this time of year. Be sure to comment below and keep the conversation going on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23KQEDSpoken&src=savs\">Twitter \u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10765751/around-the-bay-area-a-diverse-range-of-holiday-traditions","authors":["195"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_18583"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_19970","news_18562"],"featImg":"news_10769152","label":"news_6944"},"news_10734307":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10734307","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10734307","score":null,"sort":[1445908298000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-can-we-share-more-spaces-across-racial-lines","title":"How Can We Share More Spaces Across Racial Lines?","publishDate":1445908298,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Vincent Ray moved to San Francisco right after finishing medical school. He was excited to start his residency in a place like the Bay Area, where he believed everyone is accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that all changed when he moved into an apartment building in the city's upscale Nob Hill neighborhood. Ray, who is black, recalls a woman holding the elevator for him when his hands were full one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230216139\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They both said hi, and then started chatting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray recounts: \"She said, 'Do you live here?' and I said yes, I live here. And she said, 'Hmm, that's odd. I could have swore that the tenants and the management, we had a discussion that we weren't going to be allowing black people to live in this building.' She said it very matter-of-factly. And she said afterwards, 'Well, I guess that's progress for you.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray was stunned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the time, I think I probably looked like a deer in the headlights, because really I was not expecting it at all,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later on, when he told cab drivers his address, they would be surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No black people live up here on Jones and Clay,\" they would say, implying that his neighborhood was a \u003cem>white space,\u003c/em> where an overwhelming number of white people congregate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People of color are usually absent from white space altogether. When they are in white spaces, they're often not expected or they're marginalized. One classic example of a traditional white space is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.si.com/vault/1997/02/10/222609/off-limits-whats-stopping-cypress-point-from-rejoining-the-att\">country club\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this week's episode of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\">So Well Spoken\u003c/a>, comedian \u003ca href=\"http://www.wkamaubell.com/\">W. Kamau Bell\u003c/a> and Associate Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley \u003ca href=\"http://betweengoodandghetto.com/about/\">Nikki Jones\u003c/a> discuss race and place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Racism Is a Regular Part of the Black Experience Because of the 'Iconic Ghetto'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Black spaces are the neighborhoods and places where black people congregate. \u003ca href=\"http://sociology.yale.edu/people/elijah-anderson\" target=\"_blank\">Elijah Anderson\u003c/a>, a Yale professor and leading urban ethnographer, refers to black spaces as the \"iconic ghetto.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10734986\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image001.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10734986 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image001-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Black space, white space, and cosmopolitan canopies\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image001-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image001-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image001-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image001-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image001-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image001-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to R: W. Kamau Bell, Nikki Jones and Joshua Johnson (Adizah Eghan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Blackness is associated with the ghetto. Not just the ghetto as a place, but a ghetto as something that can be carried on the bodies of black people,\" explains Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many listeners called in to share their experiences of being white and not feeling welcome in black spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One online commenter, who identified himself as white, says he feels unwelcome and unsafe in neighborhoods like Hunters Point and East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems the situation is much worse for white people in black spaces than black people in white spaces. I have been physically attacked for being white in a black neighborhood; few blacks are ever attacked for being black in a white neighborhood,\" wrote \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/radiospecials/R201510261100\">DeBlo.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another caller shared a story about being white and feeling unwelcome in a black church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People shouldn't be unjustly targeted or attacked for being different, but imagine feeling like this on a regular basis, says Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"C7B97br2ZICOmGARBUxfMCqv85QwA3oP\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you are a black person, it's very hard to live in the world without having to go into white space. If you are a white person of a particular class position, you can make a choice about whether or not you go into black space,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell agrees, saying a story about how \"this happened to me one time\" is not the same as \"this happens to me all the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When a black person tells you a story about racism, they're telling you the greatest hits,\" Bell says. \"They're not revealing that [the same thing] happened all day long, every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More Cosmopolitan Canopies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Our world isn't limited to these unique spaces fraught with tension. There are some places where people of different ethnicities, social groups and races coexist in comfort. Anderson calls them \"cosmopolitan canopies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One listener pointed to the Downtown Oakland YMCA as a space of rich racial harmony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was in a class and we were stretched out with our feet behind us, and in front of me, in the row in front of me, there was a black woman, an Asian woman, a Latino woman and a white woman,\" said caller Betsy Franklin. \"And I was staring just at the bottoms of their feet, that's all I could see of them. And I noticed that they were all the same color. If you had to guess what race each person was, you absolutely could not. Because they were all the same color. It just brought it home to me that all we are is different skin colors adapting to different environments, and that's how we evolved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people choose to live in the Bay Area to be part of a more tolerant and open-minded society where we can celebrate our similarities and our differences. So how can we create more of these canopies here?\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"What does it take to create and maintain more ethnically, socially and racially diverse public spaces?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1449274834,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":848},"headData":{"title":"How Can We Share More Spaces Across Racial Lines? | KQED","description":"What does it take to create and maintain more ethnically, socially and racially diverse public spaces?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How Can We Share More Spaces Across Racial Lines?","datePublished":"2015-10-27T01:11:38.000Z","dateModified":"2015-12-05T00:20:34.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10734307 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10734307","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/26/how-can-we-share-more-spaces-across-racial-lines/","disqusTitle":"How Can We Share More Spaces Across Racial Lines?","source":"So Well Spoken ","sourceUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken","path":"/news/10734307/how-can-we-share-more-spaces-across-racial-lines","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Vincent Ray moved to San Francisco right after finishing medical school. He was excited to start his residency in a place like the Bay Area, where he believed everyone is accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that all changed when he moved into an apartment building in the city's upscale Nob Hill neighborhood. Ray, who is black, recalls a woman holding the elevator for him when his hands were full one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230216139&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230216139'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They both said hi, and then started chatting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray recounts: \"She said, 'Do you live here?' and I said yes, I live here. And she said, 'Hmm, that's odd. I could have swore that the tenants and the management, we had a discussion that we weren't going to be allowing black people to live in this building.' She said it very matter-of-factly. And she said afterwards, 'Well, I guess that's progress for you.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray was stunned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the time, I think I probably looked like a deer in the headlights, because really I was not expecting it at all,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later on, when he told cab drivers his address, they would be surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No black people live up here on Jones and Clay,\" they would say, implying that his neighborhood was a \u003cem>white space,\u003c/em> where an overwhelming number of white people congregate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People of color are usually absent from white space altogether. When they are in white spaces, they're often not expected or they're marginalized. One classic example of a traditional white space is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.si.com/vault/1997/02/10/222609/off-limits-whats-stopping-cypress-point-from-rejoining-the-att\">country club\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this week's episode of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\">So Well Spoken\u003c/a>, comedian \u003ca href=\"http://www.wkamaubell.com/\">W. Kamau Bell\u003c/a> and Associate Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley \u003ca href=\"http://betweengoodandghetto.com/about/\">Nikki Jones\u003c/a> discuss race and place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Racism Is a Regular Part of the Black Experience Because of the 'Iconic Ghetto'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Black spaces are the neighborhoods and places where black people congregate. \u003ca href=\"http://sociology.yale.edu/people/elijah-anderson\" target=\"_blank\">Elijah Anderson\u003c/a>, a Yale professor and leading urban ethnographer, refers to black spaces as the \"iconic ghetto.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10734986\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image001.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10734986 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image001-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Black space, white space, and cosmopolitan canopies\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image001-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image001-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image001-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image001-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image001-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/image001-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to R: W. Kamau Bell, Nikki Jones and Joshua Johnson (Adizah Eghan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Blackness is associated with the ghetto. Not just the ghetto as a place, but a ghetto as something that can be carried on the bodies of black people,\" explains Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many listeners called in to share their experiences of being white and not feeling welcome in black spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One online commenter, who identified himself as white, says he feels unwelcome and unsafe in neighborhoods like Hunters Point and East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems the situation is much worse for white people in black spaces than black people in white spaces. I have been physically attacked for being white in a black neighborhood; few blacks are ever attacked for being black in a white neighborhood,\" wrote \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/radiospecials/R201510261100\">DeBlo.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another caller shared a story about being white and feeling unwelcome in a black church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People shouldn't be unjustly targeted or attacked for being different, but imagine feeling like this on a regular basis, says Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you are a black person, it's very hard to live in the world without having to go into white space. If you are a white person of a particular class position, you can make a choice about whether or not you go into black space,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell agrees, saying a story about how \"this happened to me one time\" is not the same as \"this happens to me all the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When a black person tells you a story about racism, they're telling you the greatest hits,\" Bell says. \"They're not revealing that [the same thing] happened all day long, every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More Cosmopolitan Canopies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Our world isn't limited to these unique spaces fraught with tension. There are some places where people of different ethnicities, social groups and races coexist in comfort. Anderson calls them \"cosmopolitan canopies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One listener pointed to the Downtown Oakland YMCA as a space of rich racial harmony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was in a class and we were stretched out with our feet behind us, and in front of me, in the row in front of me, there was a black woman, an Asian woman, a Latino woman and a white woman,\" said caller Betsy Franklin. \"And I was staring just at the bottoms of their feet, that's all I could see of them. And I noticed that they were all the same color. If you had to guess what race each person was, you absolutely could not. Because they were all the same color. It just brought it home to me that all we are is different skin colors adapting to different environments, and that's how we evolved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people choose to live in the Bay Area to be part of a more tolerant and open-minded society where we can celebrate our similarities and our differences. So how can we create more of these canopies here?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10734307/how-can-we-share-more-spaces-across-racial-lines","authors":["195"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18","news_19970","news_18562"],"featImg":"news_10735675","label":"source_news_10734307"},"news_10719917":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10719917","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10719917","score":null,"sort":[1445278993000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"is-the-internet-changing-the-way-we-talk-about-race","title":"Is the Internet Changing the Way We Talk About Race?","publishDate":1445278993,"format":"standard","headTitle":"So Well Spoken | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Last Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-davis-confirmation-hearing-20151014-story.html\">Baltimore police arrested 16 activists\u003c/a> protesting the permanent appointment of interim Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis. The activists were from a group called the Baltimore Uprising coalition, formed in reaction to the death of \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-mysterious-death-of-freddie-gray/391119/\">Freddie Gray\u003c/a>, who died of injuries sustained while in police custody in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We will not leave until one of you comes and engages with us. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MayorSRB\">@MayorSRB\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CommishKDavis\">@CommishKDavis\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BaltimoreUprising?src=hash\">#BaltimoreUprising\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Kwame Rose (@kwamerose) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kwamerose/status/654476847162499074\">October 15, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Supporters and trolls took to Twitter as the group of young adults expressed disapproval of Davis' approach to policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kin, ignore the trolls. Meditate on freedom. Focus on winning. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash\">#BlackLivesMatter\u003c/a> is a simple truth worth fighting for. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BaltimoreUprising?src=hash\">#BaltimoreUprising\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— malkia a. cyril (@culturejedi) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/culturejedi/status/654567187533795328\">October 15, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Internet has changed the way we talk about race. \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.com/\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a> is a prime example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Black Lives Matter] could have been just like the old civil rights movement, it could have been a movement run by men, it could have been a movement that excluded queer people. ... It’s because of the Internet that it wasn’t,\" says Malkia Cyril, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://centerformediajustice.org/\">Center for Media Justice\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based media rights organization focused on racial justice, economic equity and human rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media -- including the comments section of blogs, social media platforms and various apps -- have fundamentally changed the way we talk about race at all levels, says Cyril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conversation about black people and the murder of black people by police could not only be moved from the closets, the shadows of people's homes ... it could move from there out into a larger environment because of social media,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The civil rights movement was incredibly organized and well structured. It was bolstered by church members and inherently driven by hierarchy and rules within the church. Today's movement is more open and inclusive. Because it was created in a social media space, its leaders don't have to \"dress themselves up\" for mainstream media.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Black Twitter: Where Black Voices are Heard Loud and Clear\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You can't talk about race and the Internet without talking about Black Twitter, the dynamic cyberspace where black people come together to grieve, laugh, organize, support each other and live tweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Almost 8,000 tweets with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreatMomentsInBlackTwitterHistory?src=hash\">#GreatMomentsInBlackTwitterHistory\u003c/a>. Here's the most retweeted one so far. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/Q4MDVJJ9vt\">https://t.co/Q4MDVJJ9vt\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Today in Blk (@todayinblk) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/todayinblk/status/654760612010983424\">October 15, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Cyril says black people across the nation have used the architecture of Twitter -- all 140 characters -- to speak in a creative coded language that captures the humor, beauty and emotional turmoil of the black American experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to mention Twitter has spawned a myriad of hashtags that have brought attention to issues of underserved communities that people wouldn’t otherwise come across.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Marching for \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/immigrationReform?src=hash\">#immigrationReform\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/againstracism?src=hash\">#againstracism\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/FightForFifteen?src=hash\">#FightForFifteen\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/FightFor15Chicago?src=hash\">#FightFor15Chicago\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/A0EZmwBrnW\">pic.twitter.com/A0EZmwBrnW\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Jorge Mujica (@jmujicam) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jmujicam/status/653616643742961664\">October 12, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShellNo?src=hash\">#ShellNo\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/IdleNoMore?src=hash\">#IdleNoMore\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShellNotDrill?src=hash\">#ShellNotDrill\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/nativewomenrising?src=hash\">#nativewomenrising\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/Y8BJm4WjbJ\">pic.twitter.com/Y8BJm4WjbJ\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— beansontherun (@beansontherun) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/beansontherun/status/650890823932862464\">October 5, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/KeishaJenkins?src=hash\">#KeishaJenkins\u003c/a> was assaulted by 6 men & then shot in the back. She was only 22. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/SayHerName?src=hash\">#SayHerName\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/6MvFfrhcKc\">http://t.co/6MvFfrhcKc\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/F8DulzomV6\">pic.twitter.com/F8DulzomV6\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— AAPF (@AAPolicyForum) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AAPolicyForum/status/651597118709309440\">October 7, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch3>Net Neutrality and Mobile Devices Provide More Internet Access\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cyril attributes the current breadth of the conversation on race and cultural identity to an FCC ruling on net neutrality, which prevented Internet service and wireless providers from blocking, inhibiting or establishing fast or slow lanes to content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report by the Pew Research Center finds that \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/01/06/african-americans-and-technology-use/\">African-American Internet use\u003c/a> trails that of whites on traditional platforms, like desktop computers, but is equal on mobile platforms. And 40 percent of African-American Internet users from the ages of 18 to 29 say they use Twitter, compared with 28 percent of young whites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Pew report, African-Americans are less likely than whites to have high-speed broadband access at home. However, people of color tend to experience the Internet through social media apps like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"mkWMgdKMsIrtu9bYJ2EX9peB2Mt9fFkQ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyril says the Internet offers the \"best bypass to mainstream media that has ever been available.” People are able to engage and communicate in a forum for people of color, by people of color -- but these platforms are still not \u003cem>owned\u003c/em> by people of color, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Diversity in Tech Is a Centuries-Old Power Dynamic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cyril says the dynamic of power that occurs between Internet users and the tech companies is a very old one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the the communication platforms \"that carry our message are owned by the colonizers -- are owned by the elite.” Just take a look at numbers for gender and race \u003ca href=\"http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/20/9179853/tech-diversity-scorecard-apple-google-microsoft-facebook-intel-twitter-amazon\">diversity in tech\u003c/a>, which show white males dominating the sector's workforce and management positions, while African-American and Latino representation hovers in the low single digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyril says the low representation of females and black and Latino employees is a result of unfair hiring practices, and the diversification of these companies has implications far beyond freedom of speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our ability to survive in this country depends on us being digitally literate,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the Internet allows underrepresented youth to thrive, debate and engage, the primary decision-makers exist in a world that has yet to be penetrated by all people of color.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"One expert says Internet affords people of color 'best bypass to mainstream media that has ever been available.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1445291644,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":887},"headData":{"title":"Is the Internet Changing the Way We Talk About Race? | KQED","description":"One expert says Internet affords people of color 'best bypass to mainstream media that has ever been available.'","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Is the Internet Changing the Way We Talk About Race?","datePublished":"2015-10-19T18:23:13.000Z","dateModified":"2015-10-19T21:54:04.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10719917 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10719917","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/19/is-the-internet-changing-the-way-we-talk-about-race/","disqusTitle":"Is the Internet Changing the Way We Talk About Race?","source":"So Well Spoken ","sourceUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/so-well-spoken","path":"/news/10719917/is-the-internet-changing-the-way-we-talk-about-race","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-davis-confirmation-hearing-20151014-story.html\">Baltimore police arrested 16 activists\u003c/a> protesting the permanent appointment of interim Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis. The activists were from a group called the Baltimore Uprising coalition, formed in reaction to the death of \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-mysterious-death-of-freddie-gray/391119/\">Freddie Gray\u003c/a>, who died of injuries sustained while in police custody in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We will not leave until one of you comes and engages with us. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MayorSRB\">@MayorSRB\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CommishKDavis\">@CommishKDavis\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BaltimoreUprising?src=hash\">#BaltimoreUprising\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Kwame Rose (@kwamerose) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kwamerose/status/654476847162499074\">October 15, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Supporters and trolls took to Twitter as the group of young adults expressed disapproval of Davis' approach to policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kin, ignore the trolls. Meditate on freedom. Focus on winning. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash\">#BlackLivesMatter\u003c/a> is a simple truth worth fighting for. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BaltimoreUprising?src=hash\">#BaltimoreUprising\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— malkia a. cyril (@culturejedi) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/culturejedi/status/654567187533795328\">October 15, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Internet has changed the way we talk about race. \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.com/\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a> is a prime example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Black Lives Matter] could have been just like the old civil rights movement, it could have been a movement run by men, it could have been a movement that excluded queer people. ... It’s because of the Internet that it wasn’t,\" says Malkia Cyril, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://centerformediajustice.org/\">Center for Media Justice\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based media rights organization focused on racial justice, economic equity and human rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media -- including the comments section of blogs, social media platforms and various apps -- have fundamentally changed the way we talk about race at all levels, says Cyril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conversation about black people and the murder of black people by police could not only be moved from the closets, the shadows of people's homes ... it could move from there out into a larger environment because of social media,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The civil rights movement was incredibly organized and well structured. It was bolstered by church members and inherently driven by hierarchy and rules within the church. Today's movement is more open and inclusive. Because it was created in a social media space, its leaders don't have to \"dress themselves up\" for mainstream media.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Black Twitter: Where Black Voices are Heard Loud and Clear\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You can't talk about race and the Internet without talking about Black Twitter, the dynamic cyberspace where black people come together to grieve, laugh, organize, support each other and live tweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Almost 8,000 tweets with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreatMomentsInBlackTwitterHistory?src=hash\">#GreatMomentsInBlackTwitterHistory\u003c/a>. Here's the most retweeted one so far. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/Q4MDVJJ9vt\">https://t.co/Q4MDVJJ9vt\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Today in Blk (@todayinblk) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/todayinblk/status/654760612010983424\">October 15, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Cyril says black people across the nation have used the architecture of Twitter -- all 140 characters -- to speak in a creative coded language that captures the humor, beauty and emotional turmoil of the black American experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to mention Twitter has spawned a myriad of hashtags that have brought attention to issues of underserved communities that people wouldn’t otherwise come across.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Marching for \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/immigrationReform?src=hash\">#immigrationReform\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/againstracism?src=hash\">#againstracism\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/FightForFifteen?src=hash\">#FightForFifteen\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/FightFor15Chicago?src=hash\">#FightFor15Chicago\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/A0EZmwBrnW\">pic.twitter.com/A0EZmwBrnW\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Jorge Mujica (@jmujicam) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jmujicam/status/653616643742961664\">October 12, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShellNo?src=hash\">#ShellNo\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/IdleNoMore?src=hash\">#IdleNoMore\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShellNotDrill?src=hash\">#ShellNotDrill\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/nativewomenrising?src=hash\">#nativewomenrising\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/Y8BJm4WjbJ\">pic.twitter.com/Y8BJm4WjbJ\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— beansontherun (@beansontherun) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/beansontherun/status/650890823932862464\">October 5, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/KeishaJenkins?src=hash\">#KeishaJenkins\u003c/a> was assaulted by 6 men & then shot in the back. She was only 22. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/SayHerName?src=hash\">#SayHerName\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/6MvFfrhcKc\">http://t.co/6MvFfrhcKc\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/F8DulzomV6\">pic.twitter.com/F8DulzomV6\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— AAPF (@AAPolicyForum) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AAPolicyForum/status/651597118709309440\">October 7, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch3>Net Neutrality and Mobile Devices Provide More Internet Access\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cyril attributes the current breadth of the conversation on race and cultural identity to an FCC ruling on net neutrality, which prevented Internet service and wireless providers from blocking, inhibiting or establishing fast or slow lanes to content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report by the Pew Research Center finds that \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/01/06/african-americans-and-technology-use/\">African-American Internet use\u003c/a> trails that of whites on traditional platforms, like desktop computers, but is equal on mobile platforms. And 40 percent of African-American Internet users from the ages of 18 to 29 say they use Twitter, compared with 28 percent of young whites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Pew report, African-Americans are less likely than whites to have high-speed broadband access at home. However, people of color tend to experience the Internet through social media apps like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyril says the Internet offers the \"best bypass to mainstream media that has ever been available.” People are able to engage and communicate in a forum for people of color, by people of color -- but these platforms are still not \u003cem>owned\u003c/em> by people of color, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Diversity in Tech Is a Centuries-Old Power Dynamic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cyril says the dynamic of power that occurs between Internet users and the tech companies is a very old one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the the communication platforms \"that carry our message are owned by the colonizers -- are owned by the elite.” Just take a look at numbers for gender and race \u003ca href=\"http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/20/9179853/tech-diversity-scorecard-apple-google-microsoft-facebook-intel-twitter-amazon\">diversity in tech\u003c/a>, which show white males dominating the sector's workforce and management positions, while African-American and Latino representation hovers in the low single digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyril says the low representation of females and black and Latino employees is a result of unfair hiring practices, and the diversification of these companies has implications far beyond freedom of speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our ability to survive in this country depends on us being digitally literate,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the Internet allows underrepresented youth to thrive, debate and engage, the primary decision-makers exist in a world that has yet to be penetrated by all people of color.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10719917/is-the-internet-changing-the-way-we-talk-about-race","authors":["195"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_18583"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19971","news_18562","news_1089","news_346"],"featImg":"news_10720084","label":"source_news_10719917"},"news_10708568":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10708568","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10708568","score":null,"sort":[1444831241000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"multiethnic-adults-grapple-with-questions-of-identity","title":"Multiethnic Adults Grapple With Questions of Identity","publishDate":1444831241,"format":"standard","headTitle":"So Well Spoken | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>In his 1964 \u003ca href=\"http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-lecture.html\">Nobel Prize lecture\u003c/a>, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. described humanity as a \"world house,\" filled with family of all backgrounds who must somehow learn to live with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the borders of our countries, cities and states, our own homes are increasingly becoming multiethnic, multiracial microcosms of the greater world house to which King refers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"u8Db09NWuUU373U43HWUafOHR44IuTnN\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, nearly one in six newlyweds marries across racial or ethnic lines. If we continue in this direction, the U.S. Census Bureau projects that the multiracial population will triple by 2060.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the most recent episode of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\">So Well Spoken\u003c/a>, we dove into the complex world of multiethnic families, interracial marriages and cross-cultural adoptions. How do families handle racial issues and celebrate who they are?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228115979\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height='166' iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked for stories about how families handle uncomfortable situations. Allegra Guinan's mother is from Brazil and her father is from New Jersey. She says her mother never conformed to white American culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>They never truly understood each other for their cultural differences and therefore I never understood who I was. There was a constant tension in my childhood home and I think a lot of it was not having open dialogue about melding two different cultures together. It was never talked about that we might experience certain social obstacles for being mixed. I often felt like I had to \"choose a side” because I didn’t feel like it was okay to be both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">—Allegra Guinan\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The guests on the show all agreed that it's confusing to navigate through a world where race is defined one way and ethnicity is an afterthought. Each person had a different approach to answering that one inevitable question that multiracial people often get: What exactly are you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area hip-hop artist Tom Shimura, aka \u003ca href=\"http://www.lyricsborn.com/\">Lyrics Born\u003c/a>, says that in the past he felt pressure to give a simple one-syllable answer when people asked him what he is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The language of the culture in America hasn't really caught up with what the cultural reality is for many of us,\" Shimura says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He identifies as Asian and Italian-American, and says he would much rather keep things complex than give in to the argument that we all share one universal \"American\" identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cstrong>For our hour-long special on Oct. 19:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nHow has using social media made it easier, or harder, to navigate issues of race and culture?\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Leave us a voicemail: 415-553-8455\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Post to our \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQEDnews\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Page\u003c/a> or on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=kqedspoken\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter with #KQEDSpoken\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Email us: \u003ca href=\"mailto:SoWellSpoken@KQED.org\">SoWellSpoken@KQED.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I don't really buy into the 'Oh, I'm just American thing.' There's nothing wrong with seeing a person for who they are. You just need to appreciate and learn those aspects,\" Shimura says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Spears of Vallejo, a KQED employee, sees it differently. His family consists of 10 different nationalities, and he thinks they should be checking an \"American\" race box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm teaching my kids that we are American. Being the light-skinned African-American with blue eyes ... what box do I mark off? Do I mark off black, African-American? What is black? What do my kids mark off, Filipino? I don't know if that's a box everywhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/next-america/#Changing-Perception-of-Mixed-Race\">book\u003c/a> by Paul Taylor of the Pew Research Center, the rate of interracial marriages has steadily increased since \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10889047\">Loving v. Virginia\u003c/a>, the Supreme Court ruling that struck down the remaining bans on interracial marriage in over a dozen states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to checking that race/ethnicity box, things have gotten easier. In 2000, the \u003ca href=\"http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/meta/long_RHI525214.htm\">U.S. Census Bureau\u003c/a> allowed Americans to check more than one race box when filling out the census form. This is about the same time that the \"other\" box began to pop up as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiko-Sophie Morisette-Ezaki, a resident of Sonoma whose father is Japanese-American and mother is French-Canadian, remembers the first time she encountered a box marked \"other\" that she could finally fill in. She says she feels comfortable checking \"other.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember marking both boxes, Caucasian and Asian, when I was told only to mark one. I was defiant and I marked two, until they introduced other. It was this moment of 'Yes! Yes that's me,' \" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when people ask her how she identifies without the box, she replies: \"I'm a brown person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is what some of you had to say about discussing identity on Twitter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Letting kids choose how they identify makes sense, but getting there is quite the journey. Society will jump to ID us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/kqedspoken?src=hash\">#kqedspoken\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Ana Tellez (@AnaTellez) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AnaTellez/status/653645572608425984\">October 12, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KQEDnews\">@KQEDnews\u003c/a> I'm Mexican American and my wife is Asian American adopted from S.Korea. My kids R \"human\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/kqedspoken?src=hash\">#kqedspoken\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/KjASqw1yAo\">pic.twitter.com/KjASqw1yAo\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Aimee and Angel (@Aimee_and_Angel) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Aimee_and_Angel/status/653636931780132865\">October 12, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people ask you what you are or how you identify, what do you say? Share in the comments below. Be sure to keep the conversation going with your friends on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23kqedspoken\">Twitter\u003c/a> using the #KQEDSpoken hashtag and on\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQEDnews?ref=aymt_homepage_panel\"> Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A diverse family isn't always equipped for those tough conversations about race, ethnicity and culture. 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There's nothing wrong with seeing a person for who they are. You just need to appreciate and learn those aspects,\" Shimura says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Spears of Vallejo, a KQED employee, sees it differently. His family consists of 10 different nationalities, and he thinks they should be checking an \"American\" race box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm teaching my kids that we are American. Being the light-skinned African-American with blue eyes ... what box do I mark off? Do I mark off black, African-American? What is black? What do my kids mark off, Filipino? I don't know if that's a box everywhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/next-america/#Changing-Perception-of-Mixed-Race\">book\u003c/a> by Paul Taylor of the Pew Research Center, the rate of interracial marriages has steadily increased since \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10889047\">Loving v. 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My kids R \"human\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/kqedspoken?src=hash\">#kqedspoken\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/KjASqw1yAo\">pic.twitter.com/KjASqw1yAo\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Aimee and Angel (@Aimee_and_Angel) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Aimee_and_Angel/status/653636931780132865\">October 12, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people ask you what you are or how you identify, what do you say? Share in the comments below. Be sure to keep the conversation going with your friends on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23kqedspoken\">Twitter\u003c/a> using the #KQEDSpoken hashtag and on\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQEDnews?ref=aymt_homepage_panel\"> Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10708568/multiethnic-adults-grapple-with-questions-of-identity","authors":["195"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_18583"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_19970","news_18562"],"featImg":"news_10714468","label":"source_news_10708568"},"news_10713657":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10713657","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10713657","score":null,"sort":[1444654839000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"american-born-chinese-author-talks-about-his-multicultural-life","title":"'American Born Chinese' Author Talks About His Multicultural Life","publishDate":1444654839,"format":"audio","headTitle":"So Well Spoken | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Graphic novelist \u003ca href=\"http://geneyang.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Gene Luen Yang\u003c/a> takes on questions of race, identity and assimilation in his work. As it turns out, he's also exploring those ideas at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yang is the author of \"The Shadow Hero,\" about a character who many consider to be the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/07/15/330121290/was-the-green-turtle-the-first-asian-american-superhero\" target=\"_blank\">first Asian-American superhero\u003c/a>. Yang has something of a superhero status himself in the world of comics. He’s authored two National Book Award nominees, \"Boxers & Saints\" and \"\u003ca href=\"http://us.macmillan.com/americanbornchinese/geneluenyang\" target=\"_blank\">American Born Chinese\u003c/a>.\" (Yang's latest book is called \"Secret Coders.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228115979\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We caught up with him by email to talk about the cultural mashup in his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: KQED's \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/so-well-spoken\" target=\"_blank\">So Well Spoken\u003c/a>\" is taking up the idea of multiracial families, and you've said you're in one. What kind is yours?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: My marriage is multicultural, not multiracial. I am Chinese-American and my wife is Korean-American. We have a lot in common. We grew up in the same neighborhood, went to the same high school. We are both Roman Catholic. We both attended a college in the University of California system. (I went to Cal and she went to UC San Diego.) We both worked as teachers for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as marriages go, ours is fairly low conflict. We have our seasons, but overall we’re stable. When we do have conflicts, however, they tend to stem from differences in culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713728\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10713728\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-800x1238.jpg\" alt=\"Gene Luen Yang is the author of The Shadow Hero, about a character who many consider to be the first Asian-American superhero. Yang is also the author of American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1238\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-800x1238.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-400x619.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-1440x2228.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-1180x1825.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-960x1485.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Luen Yang is the author of \"The Shadow Hero,\" about a character who many consider to be the first Asian-American superhero. Yang is also the author of \"American Born Chinese \"and \"Boxers & Saints.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gene Luen Yang)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Q: Does being with someone from another culture have particular challenges? How does that play out in your home?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: As far as cultures go, China and Korea are fairly close. I mean, they share a border. There’s been a lot of cultural exchange over the centuries. There’s a sizable Korean minority in China, and the same is true for the Chinese in Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d figure cultural differences between a Korean-American and a Chinese-American wouldn’t be that big of a deal, but they are. Early on, my wife and I decided that we would attend a Korean-American church and send our kids to weekend Chinese-language school. That’s how we’d stay in touch with both cultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then when we actually lived it out, all these unexpected feelings came up. My wife felt uneasy that our kids didn’t know how to speak Korean. I felt uneasy that my kids weren’t growing up with the same Chinese traditions as I did in my home church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know if there’s a good solution to that uneasiness. Wall Street Journal [columnist] Jeff Yang talks about how the culture of an immigrant community is like water in a bucket. When the water gets passed from the bucket of one generation to the next, some of it spills out. If you marry someone with the exact same cultural background, less water spills out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I guess my wife and I just have to make peace with the inevitable spillage. And, perhaps more hopefully, we can encourage our kids to see themselves as part of the emerging Asian-American subculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: How can these differences be funny sometimes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: In Korean restaurants, they sometimes have these flat, metal, beautifully crafted chopsticks. I still can’t get used to them. I know it’s stupid. It’s shameful for an Asian-American guy to complain about chopsticks of any kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: A Supreme Court ruling made interracial marriage fully legal at the federal level in the 1960s. That means some people living today were alive when it was still illegal to marry someone of another race. What do you say about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: Of course people of different races and cultures ought to be able to marry each other. Humans are humans. Also, culture is fluid, and the boundaries between cultures are often blurry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, spouses of different cultures ought to go into their marriages with their eyes open. Culture is real. Culture is a thing. And something kicks in after you have kids. Maybe it’s biological? I don’t know. But cultural habits that didn’t seem all that important before kids can suddenly feel very, very important after kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: Any advice? Anything to add?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: If you’re in a multicultural or multiracial relationship, talk it out. You have to treat culture as an important part of who you are, because it is. It’s as important in a marriage as money, as time, as intimacy. Don’t treat culture as something superfluous.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang says in a multicultural marriage, it's important to talk about culture.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1463788789,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":846},"headData":{"title":"'American Born Chinese' Author Talks About His Multicultural Life | KQED","description":"Graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang says in a multicultural marriage, it's important to talk about culture.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'American Born Chinese' Author Talks About His Multicultural Life","datePublished":"2015-10-12T13:00:39.000Z","dateModified":"2016-05-20T23:59:49.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10713657 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10713657","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/12/american-born-chinese-author-talks-about-his-multicultural-life/","disqusTitle":"'American Born Chinese' Author Talks About His Multicultural Life","guestFields":"0","nprStoryId":"478922199","path":"/news/10713657/american-born-chinese-author-talks-about-his-multicultural-life","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/RDnews/2015/10/SWS101215.mp3","audioDuration":3116000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Graphic novelist \u003ca href=\"http://geneyang.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Gene Luen Yang\u003c/a> takes on questions of race, identity and assimilation in his work. As it turns out, he's also exploring those ideas at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yang is the author of \"The Shadow Hero,\" about a character who many consider to be the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/07/15/330121290/was-the-green-turtle-the-first-asian-american-superhero\" target=\"_blank\">first Asian-American superhero\u003c/a>. Yang has something of a superhero status himself in the world of comics. He’s authored two National Book Award nominees, \"Boxers & Saints\" and \"\u003ca href=\"http://us.macmillan.com/americanbornchinese/geneluenyang\" target=\"_blank\">American Born Chinese\u003c/a>.\" (Yang's latest book is called \"Secret Coders.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228115979&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228115979'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We caught up with him by email to talk about the cultural mashup in his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: KQED's \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/so-well-spoken\" target=\"_blank\">So Well Spoken\u003c/a>\" is taking up the idea of multiracial families, and you've said you're in one. What kind is yours?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: My marriage is multicultural, not multiracial. I am Chinese-American and my wife is Korean-American. We have a lot in common. We grew up in the same neighborhood, went to the same high school. We are both Roman Catholic. We both attended a college in the University of California system. (I went to Cal and she went to UC San Diego.) We both worked as teachers for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as marriages go, ours is fairly low conflict. We have our seasons, but overall we’re stable. When we do have conflicts, however, they tend to stem from differences in culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713728\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10713728\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-800x1238.jpg\" alt=\"Gene Luen Yang is the author of The Shadow Hero, about a character who many consider to be the first Asian-American superhero. Yang is also the author of American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1238\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-800x1238.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-400x619.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-1440x2228.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-1180x1825.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-960x1485.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Luen Yang is the author of \"The Shadow Hero,\" about a character who many consider to be the first Asian-American superhero. Yang is also the author of \"American Born Chinese \"and \"Boxers & Saints.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gene Luen Yang)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Q: Does being with someone from another culture have particular challenges? How does that play out in your home?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: As far as cultures go, China and Korea are fairly close. I mean, they share a border. There’s been a lot of cultural exchange over the centuries. There’s a sizable Korean minority in China, and the same is true for the Chinese in Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d figure cultural differences between a Korean-American and a Chinese-American wouldn’t be that big of a deal, but they are. Early on, my wife and I decided that we would attend a Korean-American church and send our kids to weekend Chinese-language school. That’s how we’d stay in touch with both cultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then when we actually lived it out, all these unexpected feelings came up. My wife felt uneasy that our kids didn’t know how to speak Korean. I felt uneasy that my kids weren’t growing up with the same Chinese traditions as I did in my home church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know if there’s a good solution to that uneasiness. Wall Street Journal [columnist] Jeff Yang talks about how the culture of an immigrant community is like water in a bucket. When the water gets passed from the bucket of one generation to the next, some of it spills out. If you marry someone with the exact same cultural background, less water spills out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I guess my wife and I just have to make peace with the inevitable spillage. And, perhaps more hopefully, we can encourage our kids to see themselves as part of the emerging Asian-American subculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: How can these differences be funny sometimes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: In Korean restaurants, they sometimes have these flat, metal, beautifully crafted chopsticks. I still can’t get used to them. I know it’s stupid. It’s shameful for an Asian-American guy to complain about chopsticks of any kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: A Supreme Court ruling made interracial marriage fully legal at the federal level in the 1960s. That means some people living today were alive when it was still illegal to marry someone of another race. What do you say about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: Of course people of different races and cultures ought to be able to marry each other. Humans are humans. Also, culture is fluid, and the boundaries between cultures are often blurry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, spouses of different cultures ought to go into their marriages with their eyes open. Culture is real. Culture is a thing. And something kicks in after you have kids. Maybe it’s biological? I don’t know. But cultural habits that didn’t seem all that important before kids can suddenly feel very, very important after kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: Any advice? Anything to add?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: If you’re in a multicultural or multiracial relationship, talk it out. You have to treat culture as an important part of who you are, because it is. It’s as important in a marriage as money, as time, as intimacy. Don’t treat culture as something superfluous.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10713657/american-born-chinese-author-talks-about-his-multicultural-life","authors":["260"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_18583"],"categories":["news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_19970","news_18562"],"featImg":"news_10713726","label":"news_6944"},"news_10704719":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10704719","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10704719","score":null,"sort":[1444343920000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"more-than-red-and-white-in-napa-black-and-brown-as-well","title":"More Than Red and White in Napa -- Black and Brown as Well","publishDate":1444343920,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When 11 female book club members, 10 of whom were black, were kicked off the\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/napa-valley-wine-train\" target=\"_blank\"> Napa Valley Wine Train\u003c/a> in September, the incident quickly sparked a viral conversation about racism in Napa -- as well as a hashtag: #laughingwhileblack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women involved in the Napa Valley Wine Train incident are \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/01/black-women-file-civil-rights-suit-against-napa-valley-wine-train\" target=\"_blank\">suing the company\u003c/a> for racial discrimination and defamation, but that hasn’t been the only response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://oaklandfood.org/who-we-are/staff/\" target=\"_blank\">Esperanza Pallana\u003c/a>, of the \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandfood.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Food Policy Council\u003c/a>, says she wanted to do something to change the narrative of who owns space in wine country. That’s why she organized the Napa Wine Soul Train, which is how, on a Saturday in September, a group of almost 30, including myself, showed up on a corner in downtown Oakland to embark on a different kind of wine tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the name of the event, we weren’t boarding a train but a bus -- better known as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mexicanbus.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Mexican Bus\u003c/a>. The brightly painted vehicle had an old-school bus feel: hard seats, bumpy shocks and no air conditioning. “That’s why we call it the wine soul train,” Pallana said, “because the Mexican Bus definitely has some funk to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big hug out there to the women who were part of that book club, as well as to all the black and brown folk, and all the other people who have been othered,\" Pallana told the assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group was diverse, not just racially and ethnically, but across age and gender. There were food justice activists, hip young black and Latinos, a group of older, impeccably dressed black women, LGBTQ folks, a white couple in neo-hippy attire and two separate women knitting baby blankets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pallana admitted she’s never been wine tasting before; she told the group it just never appealed to her: “I don’t really feel like it’s a space that’s accessible to me.” But this trip is different, she said. Plus, the group joked, here we can laugh as loud as we want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The noise and laughter was immediately evident. To talk, people had to scream above the wind and loud, cranked-up music, but nobody seemed to mind. After all, things could only get louder, it was only 11 a.m. and no one had yet had a drop of wine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farmworker’s Chardonnay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First stop, \u003ca href=\"http://maldonadovineyards.com/about-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Maldonado Vineyards\u003c/a> in Napa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set on the low steps of a wooded hillside, the vineyard only has one real building, a cool and cavernous wine cave -- a space that the sun-strained group are more than happy to escape within.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owner Lydia Maldonado ushered us past giant bins of red grapes that smell sickly sweet and sour, giving off an odor of both rotting and ripening. Inside the building, the smell of cold stone and wet wood take over, wine barrel after barrel stacked atop each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado and her husband, Hugo, like so many who work the grapes here, are part of a lineage of Mexican farmworkers who came to work crops across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both her father and father-in-law came to work the fields, circling through the Central Valley, and up as far as Washington state. But they were some of the lucky ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the late 60s they secured full-time jobs here,\" Maldonado said. \"Year-round jobs that then allowed them to bring their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado’s father-in-law, Lupe, worked for the same company for over 45 years. But when he retired, his dream, she said, was to own a piece of Napa Valley. He found an old hay field on which to stake his claim. The hay field may have never been used to grow grapes before, but it had one thing going for it -- it was just inside the area known as Napa Valley. An important distinction, because when it comes to vineyards, it's all about location, location, location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Land in Napa Valley is very hard to come by, it’s very expensive,\" Maldonado said. \"So you don’t see a lot of us owning wineries, even though we’ve been working in the vineyards forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado led the group farther back into the depths of the U-shaped room. “It doesn’t seem impressive,” she said, almost as if to apologize, “but it’s pretty impressive to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nooo -- it’s impressive,” the group roared back, laughing and peppering her with questions about how the wine is made, how long the barrels last, what kind of grapes they use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then it’s time to taste the wine -- to see, as Maldonado put it, “what wines taste like when you really know the vineyard from the bottom up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We walked up the stone stairs to a small perch that overlooks the rolling hills, samples of wine are passed out among the group, including the first taste -- Farmworker’s Chardonnay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of people involved in the hard labor of making wine here are Mexican-American. But there is a growing effort to translate knowledge of the soil into \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/us/latino-winemakers-rise-in-california-through-the-ranks.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">ownership of the land\u003c/a>. Part of that is being spearheaded through the Mexican-American Vintners Association, known as \u003ca href=\"http://www.nsmava.org/\" target=\"_blank\">MAVA\u003c/a>, which boasts 15 Latino-owned wineries as its members, including Maldonado. Still that is 15 vineyards out of about 600 in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wine on the Vine, and in the Blood\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back on the bus, feeling warm and fuzzy, the music was turned up, and dancing and clapping and singing took over. We were headed to our second and final winery, in Sonoma County -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.esterlinavineyards.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Esterlina Vineyards\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There we were ushered onto a spacious back porch with wooden benches and a view of vineyards lazily looped across the valley below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After we settled down in the seats and wine was poured, owner Stephen Sterling greeted the group. “What you are doing right now, just having wines and being here at a multicultural winery, is something very few people in the country have done, so congratulations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling knows this because he and the vineyard's other owners -- his three brothers and his father -- are black. This is one of the few \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323981304579079164101091446\" target=\"_blank\">African-American vineyards\u003c/a> in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sterling brothers' father and grandfather used to make wine back when they lived in New Orleans. It wasn’t a commercial operation, just a tradition of making homemade wine, brought over from France, generations ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the family came to California, their father, Murio, became a cattle rancher in the Central Valley. Farming was very much in his blood. After he retired, he grew grapes for other vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers, Stephen Sterling said, mostly moved away from working on the land. They became doctors and lawyers and businessmen -- but when Eric, the physician brother, got a job in Santa Rosa, he overheard other doctors talking about their vineyards in between operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My brother went to my dad,” Sterling said, “and he said we’ve been making wine for a while on and off as a family for a while, why don’t we buy vineyards here in Sonoma County? And that’s what started it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But starting wasn’t easy, Sterling said. “Banks wouldn’t give us a loan, even though we had experience as farmers for over 30 years. They literally said for an agricultural loan we don’t have enough experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-small-business/black-hispanic-entrepreneurs-discriminated-against-when-seeking-small-business-loans/2014/06/03/70059184-ea86-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">recent studies\u003c/a> have shown that it is harder for African-American's and Latinos to get \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-04-29/race-matters-to-funding-small-businesses\" target=\"_blank\">small business loans\u003c/a>. Eventually, after putting pressure on the bank, the loan came through. But being black in wine country, Sterling said, was always a thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d be at a convention, and some ladies turned around and they started whispering really loud, ‘those are the black people, I told you there were some black people that had a vineyard,’ just going on and on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling acknowledged there is a disconnect between people of color and the wine industry; they just aren’t the perceived market for wine. But, he said, that actually goes against the history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trend of artisanal booze isn't new, and it isn't necessarily white, he said. “When I talk to African-American families, in particular in the south, someone in their family made beer, they made some kind of liqueur, they made wine. People that I talk to from Latino- American families, the same thing. Somewhere in their family, someone has done these things. Our family was just fortunate enough to keep these traditions alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They add their own traditions, too -- instead of bread sticks as a palette cleanser, we were brought bright orange cheese puffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Owning Space\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest barrier to black and brown people reaping the rewards of the wine business is the ability to own land here. That sentiment is echoed both by Stephen Sterling and Lydia Maldonado. And it is the difficulty in owning land that leads to the barrier for people of color to feel like they can own the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While sipping wine, and looking out at the rolling hills, James Johnson-Piett, who lives in Brooklyn but was visiting for work, paused to reflect on more than just the view. “It’s an access issue,” he said. He’s been to Napa before to taste wine, but he says it was different. “You go there, and you are the only one that looks a certain way, it is uncomfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not that he didn’t enjoy his other trips here, Johnson-Piett said, it’s just this time, he felt like he had a stake in the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m looking at this, and I’m actually like, I could get married here. There’s some Christmas lights that could be run around here,\" he said, pointing up at the trees, and you could see him envisioning the place glowing. \"It’s nice to know that folks that look like me have the ownership in this whole experience and can host a space for people who look like us.” And also, he added, “ for people who don’t look like us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wine after all, Johnson-Piett said, is meant to bring people together. \"Isn’t that the whole point of saying cheers?\" he said, raising his glass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glasses clinked. People said cheers, salut. For this group, owning space is something to celebrate.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After a group of black woman were kicked off the Napa Wine Train, an Oakland group created a tour to highlight the diversity of wine country. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1444406474,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":1830},"headData":{"title":"More Than Red and White in Napa -- Black and Brown as Well | KQED","description":"After a group of black woman were kicked off the Napa Wine Train, an Oakland group created a tour to highlight the diversity of wine country. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"More Than Red and White in Napa -- Black and Brown as Well","datePublished":"2015-10-08T22:38:40.000Z","dateModified":"2015-10-09T16:01:14.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10704719 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10704719","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/08/more-than-red-and-white-in-napa-black-and-brown-as-well/","disqusTitle":"More Than Red and White in Napa -- Black and Brown as Well","path":"/news/10704719/more-than-red-and-white-in-napa-black-and-brown-as-well","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When 11 female book club members, 10 of whom were black, were kicked off the\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/napa-valley-wine-train\" target=\"_blank\"> Napa Valley Wine Train\u003c/a> in September, the incident quickly sparked a viral conversation about racism in Napa -- as well as a hashtag: #laughingwhileblack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women involved in the Napa Valley Wine Train incident are \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/01/black-women-file-civil-rights-suit-against-napa-valley-wine-train\" target=\"_blank\">suing the company\u003c/a> for racial discrimination and defamation, but that hasn’t been the only response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://oaklandfood.org/who-we-are/staff/\" target=\"_blank\">Esperanza Pallana\u003c/a>, of the \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandfood.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Food Policy Council\u003c/a>, says she wanted to do something to change the narrative of who owns space in wine country. That’s why she organized the Napa Wine Soul Train, which is how, on a Saturday in September, a group of almost 30, including myself, showed up on a corner in downtown Oakland to embark on a different kind of wine tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the name of the event, we weren’t boarding a train but a bus -- better known as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mexicanbus.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Mexican Bus\u003c/a>. The brightly painted vehicle had an old-school bus feel: hard seats, bumpy shocks and no air conditioning. “That’s why we call it the wine soul train,” Pallana said, “because the Mexican Bus definitely has some funk to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big hug out there to the women who were part of that book club, as well as to all the black and brown folk, and all the other people who have been othered,\" Pallana told the assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group was diverse, not just racially and ethnically, but across age and gender. There were food justice activists, hip young black and Latinos, a group of older, impeccably dressed black women, LGBTQ folks, a white couple in neo-hippy attire and two separate women knitting baby blankets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pallana admitted she’s never been wine tasting before; she told the group it just never appealed to her: “I don’t really feel like it’s a space that’s accessible to me.” But this trip is different, she said. Plus, the group joked, here we can laugh as loud as we want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The noise and laughter was immediately evident. To talk, people had to scream above the wind and loud, cranked-up music, but nobody seemed to mind. After all, things could only get louder, it was only 11 a.m. and no one had yet had a drop of wine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farmworker’s Chardonnay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First stop, \u003ca href=\"http://maldonadovineyards.com/about-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Maldonado Vineyards\u003c/a> in Napa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set on the low steps of a wooded hillside, the vineyard only has one real building, a cool and cavernous wine cave -- a space that the sun-strained group are more than happy to escape within.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owner Lydia Maldonado ushered us past giant bins of red grapes that smell sickly sweet and sour, giving off an odor of both rotting and ripening. Inside the building, the smell of cold stone and wet wood take over, wine barrel after barrel stacked atop each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado and her husband, Hugo, like so many who work the grapes here, are part of a lineage of Mexican farmworkers who came to work crops across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both her father and father-in-law came to work the fields, circling through the Central Valley, and up as far as Washington state. But they were some of the lucky ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the late 60s they secured full-time jobs here,\" Maldonado said. \"Year-round jobs that then allowed them to bring their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado’s father-in-law, Lupe, worked for the same company for over 45 years. But when he retired, his dream, she said, was to own a piece of Napa Valley. He found an old hay field on which to stake his claim. The hay field may have never been used to grow grapes before, but it had one thing going for it -- it was just inside the area known as Napa Valley. An important distinction, because when it comes to vineyards, it's all about location, location, location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Land in Napa Valley is very hard to come by, it’s very expensive,\" Maldonado said. \"So you don’t see a lot of us owning wineries, even though we’ve been working in the vineyards forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado led the group farther back into the depths of the U-shaped room. “It doesn’t seem impressive,” she said, almost as if to apologize, “but it’s pretty impressive to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nooo -- it’s impressive,” the group roared back, laughing and peppering her with questions about how the wine is made, how long the barrels last, what kind of grapes they use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then it’s time to taste the wine -- to see, as Maldonado put it, “what wines taste like when you really know the vineyard from the bottom up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We walked up the stone stairs to a small perch that overlooks the rolling hills, samples of wine are passed out among the group, including the first taste -- Farmworker’s Chardonnay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of people involved in the hard labor of making wine here are Mexican-American. But there is a growing effort to translate knowledge of the soil into \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/us/latino-winemakers-rise-in-california-through-the-ranks.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">ownership of the land\u003c/a>. Part of that is being spearheaded through the Mexican-American Vintners Association, known as \u003ca href=\"http://www.nsmava.org/\" target=\"_blank\">MAVA\u003c/a>, which boasts 15 Latino-owned wineries as its members, including Maldonado. Still that is 15 vineyards out of about 600 in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wine on the Vine, and in the Blood\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back on the bus, feeling warm and fuzzy, the music was turned up, and dancing and clapping and singing took over. We were headed to our second and final winery, in Sonoma County -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.esterlinavineyards.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Esterlina Vineyards\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There we were ushered onto a spacious back porch with wooden benches and a view of vineyards lazily looped across the valley below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After we settled down in the seats and wine was poured, owner Stephen Sterling greeted the group. “What you are doing right now, just having wines and being here at a multicultural winery, is something very few people in the country have done, so congratulations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling knows this because he and the vineyard's other owners -- his three brothers and his father -- are black. This is one of the few \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323981304579079164101091446\" target=\"_blank\">African-American vineyards\u003c/a> in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sterling brothers' father and grandfather used to make wine back when they lived in New Orleans. It wasn’t a commercial operation, just a tradition of making homemade wine, brought over from France, generations ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the family came to California, their father, Murio, became a cattle rancher in the Central Valley. Farming was very much in his blood. After he retired, he grew grapes for other vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers, Stephen Sterling said, mostly moved away from working on the land. They became doctors and lawyers and businessmen -- but when Eric, the physician brother, got a job in Santa Rosa, he overheard other doctors talking about their vineyards in between operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My brother went to my dad,” Sterling said, “and he said we’ve been making wine for a while on and off as a family for a while, why don’t we buy vineyards here in Sonoma County? And that’s what started it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But starting wasn’t easy, Sterling said. “Banks wouldn’t give us a loan, even though we had experience as farmers for over 30 years. They literally said for an agricultural loan we don’t have enough experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-small-business/black-hispanic-entrepreneurs-discriminated-against-when-seeking-small-business-loans/2014/06/03/70059184-ea86-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">recent studies\u003c/a> have shown that it is harder for African-American's and Latinos to get \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-04-29/race-matters-to-funding-small-businesses\" target=\"_blank\">small business loans\u003c/a>. Eventually, after putting pressure on the bank, the loan came through. But being black in wine country, Sterling said, was always a thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d be at a convention, and some ladies turned around and they started whispering really loud, ‘those are the black people, I told you there were some black people that had a vineyard,’ just going on and on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling acknowledged there is a disconnect between people of color and the wine industry; they just aren’t the perceived market for wine. But, he said, that actually goes against the history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trend of artisanal booze isn't new, and it isn't necessarily white, he said. “When I talk to African-American families, in particular in the south, someone in their family made beer, they made some kind of liqueur, they made wine. People that I talk to from Latino- American families, the same thing. Somewhere in their family, someone has done these things. Our family was just fortunate enough to keep these traditions alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They add their own traditions, too -- instead of bread sticks as a palette cleanser, we were brought bright orange cheese puffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Owning Space\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest barrier to black and brown people reaping the rewards of the wine business is the ability to own land here. That sentiment is echoed both by Stephen Sterling and Lydia Maldonado. And it is the difficulty in owning land that leads to the barrier for people of color to feel like they can own the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While sipping wine, and looking out at the rolling hills, James Johnson-Piett, who lives in Brooklyn but was visiting for work, paused to reflect on more than just the view. “It’s an access issue,” he said. He’s been to Napa before to taste wine, but he says it was different. “You go there, and you are the only one that looks a certain way, it is uncomfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not that he didn’t enjoy his other trips here, Johnson-Piett said, it’s just this time, he felt like he had a stake in the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m looking at this, and I’m actually like, I could get married here. There’s some Christmas lights that could be run around here,\" he said, pointing up at the trees, and you could see him envisioning the place glowing. \"It’s nice to know that folks that look like me have the ownership in this whole experience and can host a space for people who look like us.” And also, he added, “ for people who don’t look like us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wine after all, Johnson-Piett said, is meant to bring people together. \"Isn’t that the whole point of saying cheers?\" he said, raising his glass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glasses clinked. People said cheers, salut. For this group, owning space is something to celebrate.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10704719/more-than-red-and-white-in-napa-black-and-brown-as-well","authors":["7239"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18508","news_18562"],"featImg":"news_10710828","label":"news_6944"},"news_10708292":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10708292","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10708292","score":null,"sort":[1444150721000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"whats-in-a-name-everything","title":"What's in a Name? Everything","publishDate":1444150721,"format":"standard","headTitle":"So Well Spoken | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Eric Quesada's grandparents insisted his parents give their children white-sounding names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They didn't want us having strong ethnic names, for assimilation purposes, essentially, so my brother, my sister, and I have Nordic names,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's always been kind of an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It doesn't help my case when I'm trying to say I'm Mexican,\" which he says happens \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/24/how-to-acknowledge-prejudice-and-white-privilege-without-the-guilt\" target=\"_blank\">frequently\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201405271000\" target=\"_blank\">Our names\u003c/a> place us into distinct tribes that continue to develop our sense of identity and culture. They determine if we pass and where we belong in society. Our names also allow us to inflict otherness onto others or, with a well-selected nickname, dodge the bullet of otherness that could keep us from getting a job or plunge us into embarrassing situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/227053778\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height='166' iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I listened to the live broadcast of \"So Well Spoken\" on Monday, I nodded along as Davey D, host of KPFA's \"Hard Knock Radio\" and lecturer at San Francisco State, made a crucial point about how we name our children. He said people are losing their identity to make others feel comfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you want to name your kid the way that reflects your culture, it might be in opposition of what society wants,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The folks on Twitter were feeling what Davey D had to say too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/madygmartin/status/651102760461467648\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Smevelyn/status/651106107830636544\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was in elementary school, I rated my teachers depending on how well they pronounced my name, Adizah Eghan. On the first day of school, I would sit in the classroom surrounded by my peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"OK, time for Mr./Ms. X to say my name,\" I'd think. \"If they get it right, I like them. If they get it wrong, they'll have to spend the whole first semester regaining my trust.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My little game was the same for substitutes, and it continued into college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, I've heard many variations of my name, including my personal favorite: \"Oh gosh, I'm not even going to try.\" In an effort to make the people around me more comfortable, I've collected a sampling of nicknames. Most of them I love, like Deez, Deeza and Deezie. But there are some I really hate -- like Addy. That one was given to me by someone who wanted to be more comfortable, but I still used it (mostly for coffee orders) up until a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arjun Adamson, a resident of San Francisco, encounters the nickname predicament too. He says people often struggle with his two-syllable name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think, well it's two syllables and it's not even an unusual sound for the English language: Ar-jun. [Pronounced are-jun]. The arrangement somehow is new and so they're having a hard time understanding that. And I say, 'No, I don't have a nickname. You can just learn my name.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is about the barriers that more \"ethnic\" names create. On one hand, these names might honor a culture and family's traditions. They should be preserved. On the other hand, they make it easier to make the oh-so-common snap judgements that lead us to the assumptions, stereotypes and misinterpretations that we are trying to address in this series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And my name? It's pronounced: Uh-deez-uh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do you think? Have you ever butchered someone else's name, or been on the receiving end? Share in the comments below. Be sure to keep the conversation going on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23kqedspoken\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQEDnews?ref=aymt_homepage_panel\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Ethnic names might reflect our culture, but are they what society wants?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1444174262,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":625},"headData":{"title":"What's in a Name? Everything | KQED","description":"Ethnic names might reflect our culture, but are they what society wants?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"What's in a Name? 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Everything","source":"So Well Spoken","sourceUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken","path":"/news/10708292/whats-in-a-name-everything","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Eric Quesada's grandparents insisted his parents give their children white-sounding names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They didn't want us having strong ethnic names, for assimilation purposes, essentially, so my brother, my sister, and I have Nordic names,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's always been kind of an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It doesn't help my case when I'm trying to say I'm Mexican,\" which he says happens \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/24/how-to-acknowledge-prejudice-and-white-privilege-without-the-guilt\" target=\"_blank\">frequently\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201405271000\" target=\"_blank\">Our names\u003c/a> place us into distinct tribes that continue to develop our sense of identity and culture. They determine if we pass and where we belong in society. Our names also allow us to inflict otherness onto others or, with a well-selected nickname, dodge the bullet of otherness that could keep us from getting a job or plunge us into embarrassing situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/227053778&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/227053778'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I listened to the live broadcast of \"So Well Spoken\" on Monday, I nodded along as Davey D, host of KPFA's \"Hard Knock Radio\" and lecturer at San Francisco State, made a crucial point about how we name our children. He said people are losing their identity to make others feel comfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you want to name your kid the way that reflects your culture, it might be in opposition of what society wants,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The folks on Twitter were feeling what Davey D had to say too.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"651102760461467648"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"651106107830636544"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>When I was in elementary school, I rated my teachers depending on how well they pronounced my name, Adizah Eghan. On the first day of school, I would sit in the classroom surrounded by my peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"OK, time for Mr./Ms. X to say my name,\" I'd think. \"If they get it right, I like them. If they get it wrong, they'll have to spend the whole first semester regaining my trust.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My little game was the same for substitutes, and it continued into college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, I've heard many variations of my name, including my personal favorite: \"Oh gosh, I'm not even going to try.\" In an effort to make the people around me more comfortable, I've collected a sampling of nicknames. Most of them I love, like Deez, Deeza and Deezie. But there are some I really hate -- like Addy. That one was given to me by someone who wanted to be more comfortable, but I still used it (mostly for coffee orders) up until a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arjun Adamson, a resident of San Francisco, encounters the nickname predicament too. He says people often struggle with his two-syllable name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think, well it's two syllables and it's not even an unusual sound for the English language: Ar-jun. [Pronounced are-jun]. The arrangement somehow is new and so they're having a hard time understanding that. And I say, 'No, I don't have a nickname. You can just learn my name.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is about the barriers that more \"ethnic\" names create. On one hand, these names might honor a culture and family's traditions. They should be preserved. On the other hand, they make it easier to make the oh-so-common snap judgements that lead us to the assumptions, stereotypes and misinterpretations that we are trying to address in this series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And my name? It's pronounced: Uh-deez-uh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do you think? Have you ever butchered someone else's name, or been on the receiving end? Share in the comments below. Be sure to keep the conversation going on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23kqedspoken\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQEDnews?ref=aymt_homepage_panel\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10708292/whats-in-a-name-everything","authors":["195"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_18583"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_19970","news_18562"],"featImg":"news_10708634","label":"source_news_10708292"},"news_10686316":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10686316","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10686316","score":null,"sort":[1442514064000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"so-well-spoken-a-japanese-american-stanford-student-deals-with-stereotypes","title":"So Well Spoken: Japanese-American Stanford Student Deals With Stereotypes","publishDate":1442514064,"format":"standard","headTitle":"So Well Spoken | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>So Well Spoken\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> is a KQED News series on how to communicate better in situations where race and culture are factors.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suppose you were introduced to someone of Japanese, Italian and Croatian descent. How would you strike up a conversation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopefully, you would say the same things that you would say to anyone else. But for Stanford grad student Yoichi Paolo Shiga, his Japanese first name often overshadows his other attributes, making for some awkward encounters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Typically, people approach me, they find out my name and they bring up some reference to either Japanese language, (or) start speaking to me in Japanese,\" Shiga says. \"To be honest, for me it's so awkward, I rarely know what to say.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/224300331\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shiga says he considers himself more Californian than Japanese: He was born in Japan but left at age 2, growing up in Rohnert Park, and he doesn't speak Japanese. Few people realize just how blended his cultural background is -- an increasingly common area of confusion in a highly multicultural state like ours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My dad's Japanese,\" Shiga says. \"My mom, her mother is, I guess, Croatian ... and her dad is Italian. I kind of grew up in this weird pasta-and-rice-eating family. A lot of carbs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10686379\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16696_yoichi-mother-father-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10686379\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16696_yoichi-mother-father-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Yoichi Shiga's mother and father.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16696_yoichi-mother-father-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16696_yoichi-mother-father-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16696_yoichi-mother-father-qut.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yoichi Shiga's mother and father. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Yoichi Shiga)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What happens to Yoichi could happen to anyone who is different from others in a group -- or at least, who seems different. There are many other things to know about him: He just got married, for example, and his \u003ca href=\"http://dge.stanford.edu/people/yshiga\">research\u003c/a> at Stanford involves measuring carbon in the atmosphere. Of course, people find that out only if they inquire about him, rather than making assumptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems like they're interested in talking about something they know or they're into. And it doesn't really dawn on them that, oh, this person doesn't share that or that this person isn't this made-up idea that I threw on them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stereotypes can be hard to get around, even for people with the best of intentions. How do we build connections across cultures, without making the other person feel drafted into being an ambassador?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley psychology Professor Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton can relate to this somewhat, regarding that \"R\" in his first name. Eventually, he got so tired of hearing people overemphasize it by \u003cem>rrrrrrolling\u003c/em> it dramatically that he just took up the nickname \"Rudy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's certainly helped me, in the sense that I don't have to constantly be bombarded with the Latino announcer kind of voice from everybody,\" Mendoza-Denton says. \"And then constantly having to be reminded of that ... divide that can sometimes come between people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some people are genuinely curious, from a good-natured place, about people from different cultures or backgrounds. Mendoza-Denton, who is Mexican-American, suggests that it may be inappropriate to dive in by trying to satisfy your curiosity immediately. That makes the interaction about you, rather than about both of you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton draws a parallel between Yoichi's situation and Race Together, the ill-fated campaign from Starbucks to encourage conversations on race between customers and baristas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One's cultural identity is not really part of that equation. So to bring it up is kind of forcing an issue or a conversation, or a side of a person that is not necessarily relevant even to the particular context,\" Mendoza-Denton says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bottom line: Treat people like individuals first, and beware of layering stereotypes over them. Our ignorance about someone's background can be an uncomfortable feeling, but it's OK; learning more about someone's culture works best when they become comfortable with you and give you permission to go there. For Yoichi Shiga, culture has been a fluid thing in his life ... even in his appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I was younger ... I looked like an Asian baby,\" Shiga says. \"I think now I look more like my mom. ... My facial features are looking more like her. It's been a funny transformation throughout life to see (who) you identify with, because you change how you look throughout your life.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"If you met someone of Japanese, Italian and Croatian descent, how would you strike up a conversation?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1442521905,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":704},"headData":{"title":"So Well Spoken: Japanese-American Stanford Student Deals With Stereotypes | KQED","description":"If you met someone of Japanese, Italian and Croatian descent, how would you strike up a conversation?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"So Well Spoken: Japanese-American Stanford Student Deals With Stereotypes","datePublished":"2015-09-17T18:21:04.000Z","dateModified":"2015-09-17T20:31:45.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10686316 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10686316","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/17/so-well-spoken-a-japanese-american-stanford-student-deals-with-stereotypes/","disqusTitle":"So Well Spoken: Japanese-American Stanford Student Deals With Stereotypes","path":"/news/10686316/so-well-spoken-a-japanese-american-stanford-student-deals-with-stereotypes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>So Well Spoken\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> is a KQED News series on how to communicate better in situations where race and culture are factors.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suppose you were introduced to someone of Japanese, Italian and Croatian descent. How would you strike up a conversation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopefully, you would say the same things that you would say to anyone else. But for Stanford grad student Yoichi Paolo Shiga, his Japanese first name often overshadows his other attributes, making for some awkward encounters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Typically, people approach me, they find out my name and they bring up some reference to either Japanese language, (or) start speaking to me in Japanese,\" Shiga says. \"To be honest, for me it's so awkward, I rarely know what to say.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/224300331&visual=true&undefined'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/224300331'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shiga says he considers himself more Californian than Japanese: He was born in Japan but left at age 2, growing up in Rohnert Park, and he doesn't speak Japanese. Few people realize just how blended his cultural background is -- an increasingly common area of confusion in a highly multicultural state like ours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My dad's Japanese,\" Shiga says. \"My mom, her mother is, I guess, Croatian ... and her dad is Italian. I kind of grew up in this weird pasta-and-rice-eating family. A lot of carbs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10686379\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16696_yoichi-mother-father-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10686379\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16696_yoichi-mother-father-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Yoichi Shiga's mother and father.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16696_yoichi-mother-father-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16696_yoichi-mother-father-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16696_yoichi-mother-father-qut.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yoichi Shiga's mother and father. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Yoichi Shiga)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What happens to Yoichi could happen to anyone who is different from others in a group -- or at least, who seems different. There are many other things to know about him: He just got married, for example, and his \u003ca href=\"http://dge.stanford.edu/people/yshiga\">research\u003c/a> at Stanford involves measuring carbon in the atmosphere. Of course, people find that out only if they inquire about him, rather than making assumptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems like they're interested in talking about something they know or they're into. And it doesn't really dawn on them that, oh, this person doesn't share that or that this person isn't this made-up idea that I threw on them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stereotypes can be hard to get around, even for people with the best of intentions. How do we build connections across cultures, without making the other person feel drafted into being an ambassador?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley psychology Professor Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton can relate to this somewhat, regarding that \"R\" in his first name. Eventually, he got so tired of hearing people overemphasize it by \u003cem>rrrrrrolling\u003c/em> it dramatically that he just took up the nickname \"Rudy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's certainly helped me, in the sense that I don't have to constantly be bombarded with the Latino announcer kind of voice from everybody,\" Mendoza-Denton says. \"And then constantly having to be reminded of that ... divide that can sometimes come between people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some people are genuinely curious, from a good-natured place, about people from different cultures or backgrounds. Mendoza-Denton, who is Mexican-American, suggests that it may be inappropriate to dive in by trying to satisfy your curiosity immediately. That makes the interaction about you, rather than about both of you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton draws a parallel between Yoichi's situation and Race Together, the ill-fated campaign from Starbucks to encourage conversations on race between customers and baristas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One's cultural identity is not really part of that equation. So to bring it up is kind of forcing an issue or a conversation, or a side of a person that is not necessarily relevant even to the particular context,\" Mendoza-Denton says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bottom line: Treat people like individuals first, and beware of layering stereotypes over them. Our ignorance about someone's background can be an uncomfortable feeling, but it's OK; learning more about someone's culture works best when they become comfortable with you and give you permission to go there. 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