An Immigrant’s Life

I talked to Rapper, @itsonce.official . We talked about his life in Gabon, his alcoholic step-father who made possible his miraculous immigration to Canada, despite being welcomed in Fredericton, he was bullied at school, wanting to fit in led him to a life of crime & substance abuse, being sent to a Juvenile detention multiple times, losing his mom to Cancer, wanting a change he moved to Montreal, but his demons still followed him, but with her sister’s help, he met a pastor that helped him accept Jesus in his life, black people disparaging his Chinese girlfriend, and his rap persona “Once”. 

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I had a “beseda” with the Entrepreneur, Dána Utembayeva. We discussed her life in Astana, Kazakhstan, the history of Koreans in Kazakhstan, different types of immigrants, free education in communist Russia, negative effects of Borat on the Kazakhstani community, why she chose to immigrate to Maine over Pennsylvania, her bouts with dual identity crisis, individualistic Western values, cutting family out of your life, being in a mixed relationship, taking pride in representing our ethnicity, people equating Covid mandate as fascism, and the recent unrest in Kazakhstan. 

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I had a gespräch with Business Development Manager, Lawin Ileto. We talked about his unusual name, growing up with a single mother, the adaptability of Filipinos, and their hospitable culture that makes them great nurses, living in Vietnam with a family that couldn’t speak English, moving to the Netherlands and how peeing brought him to Aachen, Germany, challenges of dating in Europe as an Asian man, cons of dating Filipinas, a Philippine law that allows murder based on “crime of passion,” and how the pandemic prevents him from assimilating into German society. 

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I had a conversation with the host of Modern Immigrant, Vero Wall. We talked about her great life in Caracas, Venezuela, before political instability forced her to immigrate to America, the “Ms. Universe Pageant” and how it affects little girls' perception of beauty in our countries, her experiences being an “Au Pair", studying in the US and the difference between American and Venezuela school system, working as a Counselor for Youth with substance use disorder, and her amazing podcast. 

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I hang out with the host of @Vienna_inmilan podcast, Vienna Legaspi. She told me about growing up in a rice field town of Biñan, Philippines, being a bully, her mom’s sudden death from measles at the a very young age, being raised by her Lola and her aunts, her complicated relationship with her dad, her immigration to Milan, Italy, her clever way of how she fought homesickness, Italian's view on immigration, and why she started her own podcast. 

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Podcast: https://viennainmilan.buzzsprout.com/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vienna_inmilan 

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I had a sit-down with the other half of “The Overseas Dream”, Emmanuele Rotondi. We talked about how we love helping people, growing up in a small town in Southern Italy that can feel claustrophobic sometimes, Italian men stereotype in the US, our love for basketball and the good and the bad things that comes with it, how he learned discipline from basketball training, and of course, our Top 5 basketball G.O.A.T.’s 

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I had a “tsismisan” with historian, Jacob Ira Vijandre. We talked about him growing up in Olongapo City, Philippines without parental supervision, that fruits an adventurous childhood, his family’s immigration to America on the day of 9/11, how Lockheed Martin fucked their American dreams that forced them to be undocumented immigrants, his admiration for his dad who taught him martial arts and eventual disillusion to him when he saw his dad’s sex tape, their escape from California to Maryland from his mom’s jealous coworker, meeting his “Guro”, why he collects Filipino artifacts, and his involvement with Bayani Art. 

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I talked to Food Blogger, Carla Chicharro. We talked about how her family from Barcelona, Spain ended up living in the Philippines, going to school and being segregated with the “foreigners” away from the “regulars”, being bullied for being different, being a victim of racism from a teacher, feeling some “White guilt” for Spain’s colonization of the Philippines, the challenge of being a foodie and losing her sense of taste and smell because of Covid, and then we talked about her Christmas experiences in the Philippines. 

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I had a “historiefortelling” with the Thai-Norwegian singer songwriter, Nate Zeth. We talked about him living in the jungle of Thailand and growing up dirt poor, being sent by his mom to be raised by his nuclear family, going on vacation with his mom and his new family and coming home to find out that his grandma passed away, and the same day his mom left him to go back to Norway, his immigration and life in Norway, getting called the N-word, why he considers himself more a Norwegian than a Thai, why he quit his dream of being a professional golfer and be a singer songwriter instead. 

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I talked to cartoonist, Trinidad Escobar. We talked about her heroine's journey, being adopted and the traumas that came with it, why making comics is a great artistic challenge, the importance of comics in Filipino culture, The Filipino Super Hero “Darna” that reflects how much Filipino culture embraces the strength of womanhood, why women are the glue to Filipino society, our mutual love for the late great actor Michael K. Williams, how her parents influenced her to love comics, how a Batman necklace almost killed her, her biomythography memoir “Crushed”, how she used Filipino mythology to tackle inner experience and mental health. 

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