Welcome to ABG, Asian Boss Girl, a podcast for the modern day Asian American woman.

My name is Mel. I'm Janet, and I'm Helen.

Hi everyone, it's Janet here. Happy holidays. It's the week of Christmas, and this year is

particularly special because many of us did not get to spend time with our friends and our

family in person last year. So for those of you who are able to be present with your loved ones

this year, please take the time to soak it in. We want the same for our team, so this week we are

resharing at Oldie but a Goodie episode 93 Asian parents on celebrating American holidays. We

hope you'll enjoy this lesson and stick around till the end because we have shout outs for you all.

Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of ABG. Now that we are fully in holiday season and

your Christmas decorations that went up in early November finally makes sense to rest of the

neighborhood, we want to bring up a topic that we've experienced our whole lives. Celebrating

Western holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas as Asians. For our parents or grandparents

generations, and even for more recent immigrants to the US, these holidays can serve to highlight

an otherness, a seemingly insurmountable distance that still needs to be traveled for true

assimilation. Whether our families serve duck instead of turkey during Thanksgiving or have a good

old spicy hotpot going, these are all traditions that we've experienced as second-generation Asian

Americans, towing the line between art eastern and western cultures, and facing the generational

differences within our families at the dinner table. To jump into this topic, we asked

parents what they first thought of Thanksgiving when they heard about the holiday, and why did

I decided to hold Thanksgiving and Christmas as traditions for the family. So start with the

clip from our moms and dads. First up, we have Helen's mom, Mama Wu.

Hi mom, welcome to the Asian Boss Girl podcast. This is your first time on here.

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