The Funny Little Ways Immigrant Parents Show Their Love

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🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Cutting up fruit and delivering it to you without asking if you want it. Sending Google alerts about murders in your area. Sitting with you while you do hours of Kumon homework. These are a few of the ways immigrant parents show their love according to comedian Meghana Indurti, who has a recent New Yorker humor piece on the topic. Her TikToks featuring her stoic father, who didn’t say the words “I love you” until she was 22, have gone viral. We’ll talk to Indurti and we want to hear from you. How have your immigrant parents expressed their affection? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.3	Growing up, my own house was a stark contrast in parenting styles.
0:52.3	My American mom delivered monologues about how much she loved
0:55.9	us with impressive detail and recall of our smallest acts. My Mexican dad was much quieter with his love,
1:02.6	but when I needed an SAT tutor or someone to sit through a mock trial meet, he was always just there.
1:08.1	Maybe he rarely said those things were about love. I did have to teach him about hugging.
1:12.1	But of course, all those things were about love.
1:14.8	And today on the show, we're talking with comedian and New Yorker contributor Megan Dirty
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