When You Move Away From Your Latino Parents

Hyphenated with Joanna Hausmann and Jenny Lorenzo

Pitaya Entertainment

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

5 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Joanna and Jenny talk about how their parents reacted when they moved away from home, why the expectation to be tethered to your family is different in the United States vs Latin America, how some parents expect their children to be reflections of them while others want their kids to become their own people, and the ways to cope with living so far away from your family.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, I'm Joanna.
0:06.5	And I'm Jenny.
0:07.3	And this is hyphenated, the podcast about living in the hyphen.
0:10.3	Jenny, we saw each other in person twice over the course of like five days.
0:15.4	So posted something on social media and people were like freaking out.
0:19.8	I know.
0:20.4	They were so happy.
0:22.3	And I'm like, oh, man.
0:24.4	Jenny and Joanna in one place.
0:26.3	We had two meals together.
0:28.2	Yes.
0:28.8	And, well, the first one I ordered non-vegan.
0:32.3	You had your vegan meal.
0:34.0	And then I went to a vegan restaurant.
0:36.6	Yes.
0:37.4	I went into your turf. You are as short as I
0:40.6	remember you. Like actually, I remembered you shorter. I think you know how like you see people and then
0:47.1	you sort of create like a cartoonish version of themselves in your mind if you don't get to know them.
0:51.4	Like, oh, the guy with a big nose or like, yeah, the person with the weird, you know, haircut.
0:56.3	And then you exaggerate those aspects.
0:59.0	I feel like I exaggerated how short you were.
1:02.9	I think I thought you were taller too.
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