How one event in history can ripple through generations of a family

Code Switch

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🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week we're bringing you the first episode in a new series called Inheriting, created in collaboration with our friends at LAist Studios. In each episode, NPR's Emily Kwong sits down with Asian American and Pacific Islander families and explores how one event in history can ripple through generations.

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0:00.0	Christian Nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.
0:08.0	If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.
0:12.0	I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely American,
0:16.0	I'll take you inside the movement.
0:18.0	Listen to Extremely American, from Boise State Public Radio,
0:22.0	part of the NPR Network.
0:24.0	Just a heads up y'all, this episode
0:26.0	contains some salty language,
0:28.0	which means it's funny to be some cousin.
0:30.0	Hey everyone, you're listening to Code Switch. I'm B.A. Parker and I'm Jean Dembe.
0:35.6	Okay I'm gonna get a little existential on you. You ready? Oh boy. Okay. All right. Let's do it.
0:42.6	All right. so do you ever think about how the present you're living through right now is going to go down in the history books?
0:52.3	Absolutely. Like you know where you were on
0:55.9	9-11 or what happened on the last day before lockdown in 2020, things like that.
1:02.8	Like we lived through that.
1:04.3	We lived there's so many unprecedented zones,
1:07.0	but I guess all times are unprecedented, right?
1:09.5	And now we're all in therapy, trying to process it in real time.
1:12.3	Yeah.
1:13.0	Pink is crossed.
1:14.0	Well our play cousin Emily Kwong from Shortwave is hosting a new show called
1:18.4	Inheriting and it's all about Asian American and Pacific Islander families and how one event in history about
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