Though we are a diverse group of friends, we haven’t had many conversations about race, especially our own race. With all the current racial tension and issues going on, we joined in on the conversation. In this episode, we discuss how connected we feel to our ethnicity, how it has affected our upbringing, personal and professional lives, media representation and more. When was the last time you had conversations with your friends about your ethnicity and the effects of it? What are the similarities or differences? If you haven’t, we encourage everyone to have healthy conversations with friends so we all can appreciate everyone’s culture and ethnicity. Let's continue the conversation online. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. 

Here are some of the resources we used and you can use them to help start that conversation: 

• A Teaching Tolerance Guide, Discussing Race, Racism and Other Difficult Topics with Students
• Culture Appreciation vs. Cultural Appropriation: Why it Matters
• Chapter 7: The Many Dimensions of Hispanic Racial Identity 
• A History: The Construction of Race and Racism 
• Many Black and Asian Americans Say They Have Experienced Discrimination Amid the COVID-19 Outbreak 
• 'A Chosen Exile': Black People Passing in White America
• The Trouble with 'Passing' for Another Race/Sexuality/Religion...