Red Sister, White Brother: U.S./China Culture & Politics

A Discussion of Charlotte's 23andme results and some surprising revelations about her Han ancestry,

Charlotte and Keith discuss the decline in fertility rates across the modern world, as well as overall population declines in the coming years.

Charlotte and Keith discuss the popular 2018 documentary "Three Identical Strangers", which details the story of three identical twins who were separately put up for adoption in the 1960s and later reunited. Unbeknownst to them, they were placed as test subjects in a professionally coordinated psychology experiment. We discuss the implications of their life-story and how it relates to the nature vs. nurture debate.

Li discusses the Confucian concept of "filial piety" in Chinese culture, which is the reverence of parents, elders and ancestors and how it contributes to the modern Chinese worldview, for both native-born Chinese and Chinese-Americans. Keith describes how this concept is largely at odds with Western ideas of individualism and right to autonomy.

In this episode Dr. Li provides personal anecdotes and observations about the status of women in East Asia, as well as contrast against Keith's western perceptions of women in society.

In this introductory episode, Charlotte inquires about the Covid-19 outbreak in America; how did it get so bad? who's to blame? and what have been the reactions of the American people so far?