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Producer Jackson Breaks Down Being Labeled a “Banana” Growing Up

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Producer Jackson shares his experience growing up and being labelled "a banana"...AKA "Asian on the outside and White on the inside." He'll explain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.0

The Birchow

0:58.0

It has been really interesting having Jackson Kim join the Birchow, and learning about Korean and Asian culture.

1:04.0

And he brought up something while we were all hanging out the other day that the name itself or the phrase itself just seems so offensive to me.

1:14.0

It doesn't seem it is.

1:16.0

It can come across as that way, and I guess it is a little bit of a slur or something.

1:21.0

What they're talking about is being labeled a banana or a twinkie.

1:26.0

Visually you can imagine that that means you are yellow on the outside and white on the inside.

1:32.0

Now is this something that the Asian community calls each other?

1:37.0

It has kind of different context depending on who tells it to you, I think.

1:41.0

So if people within the community tell you that, that usually means someone who they don't speak their native language at home,

1:49.0

or your aunts or uncles might call you that as someone that's kind of like talking down to the younger generation of your rejecting culture kind of thing,

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