Radio Rookies 2023: Learning What it Means to be Tibetan
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Carolina Hidalgo, senior producer for WNYC's Radio Rookies, introduces the new class of Radio Rookies while WNYC Radio Rookie Saldon Tenzin shares her story on her experience of growing up as a first-generation Tibetan and learning to be proud of a home she's never visited.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lairr on WNYC and now we'll wrap up today's show with another radio rookie. |
| 0:15.9 | Yesterday, we heard about the gentrification of New York City, particularly the South Bronx. |
| 0:21.6 | Feels like through the eyes of young people growing up there today, if you missed it, definitely |
| 0:26.0 | go back and listen to Christina Argers' piece. |
| 0:29.6 | She received high praise from our callers during our segment yesterday and other people who |
| 0:34.1 | wrote in after. |
| 0:35.6 | Now we turn the page and head along the seven-mind to Woodside Queens, where 16-year-old |
| 0:42.1 | radio rookies reporter, Salden Tenzin, brings us to a bet-a-tabettin community center. |
| 0:48.5 | There, the children of first-generation immigrants celebrate in order to keep their cultural |
| 0:53.9 | lives, take a listen to 45 seconds. |
| 0:58.7 | There's one day out of the year that I look forward to the most, Lossar, also known |
| 1:03.8 | as Tabetin New Year. |
| 1:08.8 | In Queens where I live, hundreds of Tabetins turn out to celebrate. |
| 1:13.2 | I always meet up with my friends at the Tabetin Community Center. |
| 1:20.3 | The morning starts off with prayers, and then the adults always ask us to help hand |
| 1:24.4 | out food. |
| 1:25.4 | Hi, Salden. |
| 1:26.4 | You want to help us? |
| 1:27.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.4 | You know what someone said to us? |
| 1:29.4 | What? |
| 1:30.4 | We're the future of Tabetin. |
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