Pacific Islander, Not Asian (feat. Mona Jones, Comedian)
Feeling Asian
Youngmi Mayer & Brian Park
4.9 • 941 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Mona Jones is the world's only female Chamorro comedian. She describes the distinction between being Pacific Islander and being Asian, and America's tendency to clump the two together. She also gives us a crash course on island culture and the racism that existed in its school systems. Follower her @kirida and follow us @itsbrianpark, @ymmayer and @feelingasianpodcast!
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| 0:00.0 | How are you feeling? |
| 0:04.0 | I'm feeling Asia. Welcome to Feeling Asian Aisian, a podcast where two Asians talk about their feelings. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Young Me Mayor. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm Brian Park. |
| 0:22.4 | And I'm really excited, Brian. I want to introduce our guest today because you know I've talked about this before I grew up on this island called Saipan but I'm you know ethnically Korean and white, but on Saipan, the people that live there, they are called |
| 0:37.5 | Chamoros. |
| 0:38.5 | Just in case, you know, I'm guessing no one knows because I've literally talked about this |
| 0:41.8 | a million times in my life and no one has ever known. |
| 0:44.0 | And today as a guest we have the world's only female tomorrow stand-up comedian and she's |
| 0:54.4 | fucking hilarious I'm just starstruck I mean no when we asked her how she'd like to be |
| 1:00.3 | introduced worlds anything worlds only is so impressive and I'm, it's awesome. |
| 1:08.6 | I'm the, I'm not the worlds only anything. |
| 1:11.2 | Me neither. |
| 1:11.9 | I'm, my name is. I'm whatever. I'm a piece of garbage but we have the |
| 1:17.2 | world's only female Chamorro comedian on this podcast. On the |
| 1:21.7 | podcast today everyone clap now for Mona Jones. Yay thank you guys. |
| 1:31.5 | We're clapping inside of our hearts. |
| 1:33.0 | Mona, how does it feel being the world's only female tomorrow comedian? |
| 1:38.0 | Oh, it feels great. It feels, I killed everyone else. |
| 1:41.0 | I ruined, yeah, I eliminated everyone else. I ruined. Yeah I eliminated my competition. I so I'm the only one. I'm the only one. |
| 1:46.8 | It's not that it's not that there weren't any it was that you killed the all of them. |
| 1:51.7 | You know I had to take it take them down to make sure that they didn't |
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