Growing up in predominately white areas as a BIPOC made it easy to always stick out.  It made it easy for me to avoid speaking my native language.  It made it easy for me to wish my parents spoke English.  It made it easy for me to not want to wear my traditional Hmong clothes.  It made it easy for me to resent my own ethnic identity, Hmong.  It made it easy for me to wish to be white.  It made it easy for me to be lost in my own identity. 

Many BIPOC who grew up in predominately white areas, have phases in their life where they resent being their racial or ethnic identity. Billy, host of the Hey Billy podcast, and I sat down to talk about how we resented being Hmong for parts of our lives.  We talk about how we grew up wishing we were white, how our society did not teach us to love ourselves, how we've come to love much of our Hmong identity, and how we set healthy boundaries with it.  We also highlight how the Hmong identity can constrain young 20 year olds and talk about how to develop a mindset of the culture that can add to the lives of young and adventurous adults. 

Join Billy and I on this podcast, as we bring you through stories of our journeys, our journeys of finding solitude in our Hmong identities as young 20 year olds.  Not all of the Hmong culture is beautiful and there are many things that need to change but we talk about how it is empowering to now appreciate the language we were raised with and love the people who we used to resent.  

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