Forming New Habits
Habits are hard to break, but they can be changed.
Habits are hard to break, but they can be changed.
The wonderful @hangukhapa is our guest in this episode!
Janet and Brian have a conversation about what they think some of these pressures are, where they think they came from, and what they did to get past the pressure.
As many of us have faced adulting with a skewed view and expectations that we eventually realize are not our own. We may have to face much internal struggle to try and figure out what it all means.
In this episode, Janet and Brian define shame and the differences in their cultural contexts as well as sharing their personal experiences with how it had affected them before they had even known how it had affected their beliefs and self-image.
Eastern Asians that follow more traditional Confucianist values already know that the Hierarchy between age, rank, class, and even gender is a long-held tradition deeply embedded in our social interactions.
Janet and Brian explore their own multicultural values and how they go about navigating them, especially when there are some values that oppose each other.
We’re talking about the real world picture when it comes down to nunchi and what we think about where it comes from.
In this episode, Janet and Brian both open up about their experiences with anxiety and explore why it may be that Asian cultures tend to avoid or repress the notion that such issues even exist.
In this episode, Janet and Brian talk about bullying through the lens of Asian-Americans.
Janet goes into a lot of detail about what this looks like in South Korea and where this could potentially come from, as it is almost ingrained into life for kids growing up.