What it's like to be Asian-Latino

Hyphenated with Joanna Hausmann and Jenny Lorenzo

Pitaya Entertainment

Latinx, Hyphenated, Pitaya, Jenny Lorenzo, Education, Us Latinos, Comedy, Joanna Hausmann, Society & Culture

4.9 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Joanna and Jenny are joined by Korean-Peruvian artist and educator Ren Fernández-Kim. They discuss the history of Asian Latinos, how Asian and Latino culture have influenced one another over the centuries, and the evolution of Kim's hyphenated sense of identity.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm Joanna.
0:03.8	And I'm Jenny.
0:05.5	And this is hyphenated, the podcast about living in the hyphen.
0:09.3	So today, we have an incredibly special guest with us.
0:14.0	My good friend Ren Fernandez Kim, who is a Peruvian, Korean, online humanist educator
0:19.8	that focuses on anthropology and history and how that
0:23.8	can help us understand what it means to be human. Ren is also the sweetest person I know.
0:29.5	Oh my God. You guys are so sweet. Thank you so much.
0:32.4	Welcome, Ren. Also, that, like, your bio just made me question my life choices.
0:42.0	It's okay.
0:42.9	It makes me question a lot of things too.
0:45.2	Oh, okay.
0:45.8	Good.
0:47.7	Like, wow, that's a pretty sweet bio.
0:50.0	Wow.
0:50.4	That's me.
0:51.5	That's me.
0:52.6	Ren, we're so excited to have you here.
0:55.5	You know, this podcast is about talking about identity.
0:58.5	And we really wanted to talk to you specifically about the sort of history, the trials and tribulations, the identity struggles of what it's like to be an Asian Latino.
1:13.5	So tell us a little bit about your background. So I'm Korean-Peruvian, or I like to say aggressively Caribbean. But most of that
1:19.9	comes down to a lot of my identity politics from when I was very young. Obviously, I knew I was
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