To wrap up an incredible first season of stories its time to review and reflect! To help with the Season 1 wrap up, host Sabrina invited Rakshitha Arni Ravishankar who wrote an article in Harvard Business Review on the question "Where Are You From" to join her and Natalia to discuss the question.

Check out Rakshitha's article here https://hbr.org/2020/10/whats-wrong-with-asking-where-are-you-from

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Contrary to what most students were taught in U.S. History class, over 35,000 years before Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, the first inhabitants of North American arrived and they did not come from Europe. Join host Sabrina, as she explores the question "Where Are You From?" with Clearbear, an Activist/Model/Filmmaker who is Kumeyaay (a tribe of Indigenous peoples of the Americas who live at the northern border of present-day Baja California, Mexico and the southern border of present-day California,USA) and Chichimeca (the name of the Nahua peoples of the present-day Bajio region of Mexico). After a challenging childhood navigating his own identity, he has dedicated his life to supporting identity liberation for all Indigenous people. He offers an interesting perspective on the question, and shares advice for anyone who is struggling with identity work. Sabrina also jumps into the Fact Check space in this episode for the first time, and Natalia shares a bit more about how this conversation made her reflect on her Mexican-American identity.

If you want to dive deeper into Sabrina and Natalia's fact-checks from this episode, check out the links below:

You can follow Clearbear @Topash.Skharr on Instagram

Census Data referenced: https://www.census.gov/about/partners/cic/resources/data-links/aian.html 

Native Knowledge: https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: https://www.history.com/topics/mexican-american-war/treaty-of-guadalupe-hidalgo

Jose Vasconcelos:

Hilton, Ronald. “José Vasconcelos.” The Americas, vol. 7, no. 4, 1951, pp. 395–412. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/978353. Accessed 7 Apr. 2021.

https://www-jstor-org.libproxy1.usc.edu/stable/pdf/978353.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Fbasic_search_gsv2%252Fcontrol&refreqid=excelsior%3A4017d1ede862cdeb991263bbd95eb3de

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Vasconcelos

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Join host Sabrina, as she explores the question "Where Are You From?" with Norma and Rahul. Norma lives in Arizona and grew up in a community right near the U.S. - Mexico Border. Rahul currently lives in Washington, DC but grew up in New York. These two long time friends had very different responses to the question and shared some incredible stories of how the question "where are you from?" has impacted their lives in the USA. Surprise - Norma is also Natalia's Mom so we have a special fact-check from Natalia and her sister in this episode.

Relevant links from this episode - https://www.homelight.com/blog/buyer-what-is-steering-in-real-estate/

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Have you ever wondered what someone who was not born in the USA and is not an immigrant in the USA, thinks of the USA? Join host Sabrina as she explores an international perspective on the question "Where Are You From?" with special guest Matias Pinto, who is from Chile. He grew up learning about the USA following great American legends like Michael Jordan, Homer Jay Simpson and the classic American tourist with socks.

If you want to dive deeper into Natalia's fact-check from this episode, check out the links below: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/09/30/how-u-s-immigration-laws-and-rules-have-changed-through-history/ https://www.pewresearch.org/global/interactives/international-migrants-by-country/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/30/immigrant-share-in-u-s-nears-record-high-but-remains-below-that-of-many-other-countries https://www.pewresearch.org/global/interactives/international-migrants-by-country https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/19/17590302/trevor-noah-france-french-ambassador-araud-world-cup https://www.npr.org/2020/11/25/937248659/president-elect-biden-hits-80-million-votes-in-year-of-record-turnout https://minorityrights.org/minorities/afro-chileans/

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Did you know that the USA has more immigrants than any other country in the world? Immigrants account for over 14% of the U.S. population and have arrived from just about every country in the world. Join host Sabrina, as she explores the question "Where Are You From?" with Genti, who has called many countries home after fleeing civil unrest in Albania. He did not feel truly settled until he finally arrived in the USA and now calls Ohio home. Genti's grit and optimism, despite the challenges he has faced along his journey, really shine through as he shares some of his immigrant story with us.

If you want to dive deeper into Natalia's fact-check from this episode, check out the link below: https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/albania.htm

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Have you ever wondered which box to check when asked to check the box of your respective race while completing official paperwork? If so, join host Sabrina, in an interesting conversation with special guest Felizia, who shares more about her experience with the question "Where are you from" when she moved to the USA for college from Colombia.

If you want to dive deeper into Natalia's fact-check from this episode, check out the links below:

Differences between "Hispanic" and "latinx/e", want to give credit to @analyactivists on instagram for providing these sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YtME4wLaD7KthtK_3aGNcYn4NrTE1sPMiTkWGHnkloE/edit?usp=sharing History of U.S. Census "boxes":https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-03/a-complete-history-of-census-race-boxes-from-1790-to-2010 Holocaust Refugee information: https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/how-many-refugees-came-to-the-united-states-from-1933-1945 Languages in Mexico: https://www.statista.com/statistics/275440/languages-in-mexico/#:~:text=The%20Mexican%20government%20uses%20Spanish,63%20of%20which%20are%20indigenous.&text=Of%20the%20indigenous%20languages%20spoken,used%20are%20Nahuatl%20and%20Maya. Languages in Colombia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Colombia#:~:text=The%20overwhelming%20majority%20of%20Colombians,Colombia%20in%20the%20Ethnologue%20database. Puerto Rico background: https://minorityrights.org/minorities/afro-puerto-ricans/#:~:text=The%20first%20individual%20of%20African,fledgling%20ginger%20and%20sugar%20plantations. Dominican Republic background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Dominicans

Supreme Court Cases referenced: 1922: Ozawa v. United States, 1923: United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind

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How often do you find yourself making assumptions as to where someone is from solely based on the color of their skin? Join host Sabrina, as she dives deeper into the topic of assumptions with guests,  Cedric and Tarick. Cedric is from a multi generational American family and Tarick moved to the United States as a child from Sierra Leone. Both are military vets (thank you for your service  guys!), southern gents, and both have had some interesting experiences with the question,"Where are you from?". Spoiler: We may or may not submit this episode to American Idol because one of the guests can sing!

If you want to dive deeper into Natalia's fact-check from this episode, check out the links below: Mayor of New Orleans on taking down racist statues: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/opinion/mitch-landrieus-speech-transcript.html?module=inline Sun down towns: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/the-roots-of-route-66/506255/ More information on Foo Foo: https://eatyourworld.com/destinations/africa/general_sierra_leone/sierra_leone/what_to_eat/foofoo More information on Igbo: https://nalrc.indiana.edu/doc/brochures/igbo.pdf Song of Solomon: https://www.amazon.com/Song-Solomon-Toni-Morrison/dp/140003342X

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It is always fascinating how different our experiences can be in the United States, even when we grew up in the same State. Join host Sabrina, as she asks the question "Where are you from?" to her first guests, Sofia and Tara, who both grew up in the state of Virtue, Liberty and Independence, yet could not have had a more different experience with the question. Sofia is a first generation American of Palestinian and Italian heritage and Tara is from a multi generational American family that has called Pittsburg home for several generations.

If you want to dive deeper into Natalia's fact-check from this episode, check out the links below: FBI hate crime statistics 2001: https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2001/hatecrime01.pdf FBI hate crimes statistics 2000: https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2000/hatecrime00.pdf Muslim Public Affairs council: https://www.mpac.org/programs/hate-crime-prevention/statistics.php

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Welcome to Belong in the USA Podcast! Join host Sabrina Teichman in this episode as she introduces the podcast and themes to expect in Season 1 called "Where Are You From?" 

Check us out on instagram @belonginusa.