3.13: Bringing Chinese Culture Into Our Homes

First Name Basis Podcast

Jasmine Bradshaw

How To, Parenting, Education, Kids & Family

5 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Since the start of the pandemic the Asian-American community has faced heightened discrimination, racism, and violence. In this episode I give concrete examples of what it looks like to stand up against this racism and how we can model these anti-racist actions for our children. We then transition into my conversation with children’s author Andrea Wang to learn how we can bring Chinese culture into our homes and get involved with the Chinese community in our area. Andrea shares ideas for learning about and celebrating Lunar New Year. Not only is Andrea a talented, hilarious writer, she also has two boys and an advanced degree in environmental science. It was such a joy to connect with someone I admire so much!

During our conversation we cover:

Her path to becoming an author and her inspiration behind writing The Nian Monster
Lunar New Year, her favorite Lunar New Year traditions, and how families who don’t usually celebrate Lunar New Year can get involved
Her experiences growing up in a predominantly white community
The importance of teaching our children about implicit bias and how to help your children dispel stereotypes they may have about the Chinese community
The #ownvoices movement in which authors of color and other marginalized groups are advocating for themselves and fighting for the space to tell their own story
The importance of having an inclusive bookshelf
Using the OurStory App to find inclusive books
The issues with the book Tikki Tikki Tembo and Grace Lin’s essay about the book
The projects that Andrea has coming up in the next few years

Check out Andrea’s Books!

How to get in contact with and keep up with Andrea

The Event Kit & Teacher Guide for The Nian Monster

PBS Documentary: The Chinese Exclusion Act

Speaking Up Against Racism Around the New Coronavirus by Learning For Justice

How To Respond To Coronavirus Racism

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0:00.0	You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 3, Episode 13, Bringing Chinese
0:06.5	Culture into our homes with children's author, Andrea Wang.
0:17.6	Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home.
0:25.9	First-name basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your family and a changemaker in your community.
0:33.9	Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the world we want,
0:40.0	a world that reflects our values of inclusion, compassion, and courage.
0:45.3	I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be on this journey with you.
0:53.5	Hello, First Name Basis, fam. I am so glad you are here. Okay, I'm going to be honest with you.
1:01.3	This is not the episode that I had planned for this week. Of course, you know that it's Black
1:06.8	History Month, and I have been talking a lot about embracing black culture and really leaning
1:12.8	into black joy. And I've been trying to do that in my own life. So one of the things that I did was I
1:18.3	asked my dad to teach me how to make fried chicken. Because fried chicken, even though there are
1:23.4	lots of stereotypes surrounding it, a family fried chicken recipe is really a point of pride,
1:29.6	and it is a point of joy for so many black families. And my grandmother was known for her
1:35.6	fried chicken. So what I did was we were whipping it up. My dad was teaching me how to do it,
1:40.9	and I thought, this needs to be an episode. Everybody needs to hear this.
1:49.9	So I whipped out my recording equipment and I was asking my dad about the recipe and recording it for you but also for my posterity. Like I really want my children and my grandchildren to have
1:56.3	this recipe in their hearts and in their cookbooks. So anyway, all that to say, I was supposed to be
2:04.1	talking about fried chicken this week, but instead we need to be talking about the racism and
2:10.1	the discrimination that is being perpetuated against the Asian American community.
2:15.8	Similarly to other communities of color, the Asian American
2:19.3	community has been subjected to widespread discrimination and violence and hatred from the
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