Producer Romeo Shares His Experience With First Generation Guilt
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🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The virtue. |
| 0:01.0 | It's a real thing. |
| 0:02.0 | First generation guilt. |
| 0:03.6 | It's, uh, if I have it right, Romeo has explained it as like when your parents aren't from |
| 0:09.0 | this country, but they struggle to get in this country and you know all about that struggle |
| 0:14.4 | that there's like an inherent guilt if you are not achieving the goals that you want |
| 0:22.1 | in order to make your parents proud because they work so hard to get you into the country. |
| 0:25.2 | Do I have that right? |
| 0:26.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.2 | Okay. |
| 0:28.2 | When you reach those goals, there's this overwhelming guilt that you have. |
| 0:32.8 | And I was just talking about this with my cousin. |
| 0:35.6 | And it was cool because I don't ever, I don't think I ever have conversations like close |
| 0:40.2 | with my family like that where we talk about like our struggles in a way or like what's |
| 0:45.3 | going on mentally and things like that. |
| 0:47.0 | And it's funny because I had this conversation in the car. |
| 0:49.8 | I don't know what it is about me having like serious conversations in the car, but I was |
| 0:53.4 | writing with my cousin. |
| 0:55.4 | And he was so happy he was excited because he recently just got a new job as a project |
| 1:01.0 | manager for this construction company. |
| 1:03.6 | And this is a guy who with his dad, they've created as well like a wood floor company, |
| 1:09.2 | right? |
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