The Big Blend

🇵🇸🇫🇷 This episode’s guest is Momin, he is Palestinian and found asylum in France, 4 years ago.

With Momin, we talked about: 

• The role of the country’s locals when integrating a new culture
• The commitment it takes to become native speaker of a completely new language
• Seeing culture as an evolving mosaic, and continuously adopting new elements along the way
• Building a home where you are with what you have

Happy blending!🥣

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🇯🇵🇫🇷🇰🇷🇬🇧 This month’s guest on The Big Blend is Yoshito, a French and Japanese dad, who works a lot on transmitting literacy.

With Yoshito, we talked about: 

• Lack of literacy creating a gap between a person and their culture
• Being at peace with all our cultures and understanding what we want from them
• The importance of relevance and play in transmission
• The parental posture when teaching a heritage culture
• A few home-made game ideas to transmit literacy

Happy blending!🥣

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Yoshito's Kickstarter campaign link: https://rb.gy/bm7v4

Yoshito's website (The Library 4 multilinguals) : https://www.library4multilinguals.com/

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🇺🇸🇫🇷🇱🇧 This episode’s guest is Diane, an expert in the subjects of intercultural language and identity.

With Diane, we talked about: 

• The works of Pierre Bourdieu, Carl Gustav Jung and many others
• The intimate link between language, culture and identity
• Culture negotiation and “translanguaging”
• The importance of surrounding ourselves with our cultural references to feel complete
• The invisible grief that comes with losing your culture 
• Creating an imaginary homeland through language
• Country policies setting the stage for multiculturalism

Happy blending!🥣

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The Big Blend’s website: https://www.thebigblend.co/ 

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🇯🇵🇹🇷🇰🇷🇫🇷... This episode’s guests are Emily and Aude, two sisters who grew up as expats, relocating every 2 to 3 years with their family.

With them, we talked about:

• The impact multiple moves can have on individuals in a family
• The meaning of friendship when you move around a lot
• The importance of involving the kids in the decision-making process of moving
• The balance between solid anchors and rich multiculturality
• The importance of a sister bond as a reassuring stability

Happy blending!🥣

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The Big Blend’s website: https://www.thebigblend.co/ 

The Big Blend’s instagram: https://instagram.com/thebigblend_podcast?utm_medium=copy_link

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🇮🇪🇩🇪🇮🇳 This episode’s guest is Sindy Brücher Sharma, a mom whose kids are now fluent in three languages: German, Hindi and English.

With Sindy, we talked about:

• The importance of a childhood home and what happens when it’s sold
• The OPOL strategy - one parent one language - and the dedication it takes
• The energy it requires to give three cultures equal importance in the home
• The challenge of continuously searching for content to enrich the vocabulary of your child
• Grandparents’ views on the parents’ cultural education decisions
• Little victories

Happy blending!

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The Big Blend’s website: https://www.thebigblend.co/ 

The Big Blend’s instagram: https://instagram.com/thebigblend_podcast?utm_medium=copy_link

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🇳🇬🇺🇸🇱🇷 This episode’s guest is Ruth E. Van Reken, a pioneer in the subjects of moving around and navigating cultures. 

With Ruth, we talked about:

• Taking the time to grieve when transitioning and accompanying a child through loss
• Developing portable traditions to create a solid family culture and reinforce attachment
• Normalizing multiculturality and shifting the paradigm
• Focusing on where we are alike to celebrate the differences

Happy blending!

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Ruth's website: http://www.crossculturalkid.org/

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🇸🇦🇱🇧🇨🇦 This episode’s guest is Dima Adra, the writer of Mama Ghannnouj a cookbook that is all about the transmission of recipes and culture.

With Dima, we talked about:

• Transmitting cultural tastes to your kids
• Keeping our cultures’ recipes alive and maintaining the feeling of home they procure
• Getting started and cooking your home recipes, including the ones that seem complex to reproduce abroad
• Being so immersed in a country’s community that it feels like home without having been in the country 

Happy blending!

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Mama Ghannouj’s website: https://mamaghannouj.com/ 

Mama Ghannouj’s instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mamaghannouj/ 

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🇨🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷 This episode’s guest is Max Wolke, his family is English, German, Chilean, and French.

With Max, we talked about:

• Dialing up or down different cultures depending on the situation
• Filling in the blanks of family history with time
• Developing an interest in Politics and opinions thanks to cultural exposure 
• Having family rituals that bring you closer to culture
• Friends and colleagues’ cultures rubbing off on you
• Valuing and respecting traditional mono-cultures

Happy blending!

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The Big Blend’s website: https://www.thebigblend.co/ 

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🇦🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪 This episode’s guests are Anna and Tanja, one is Australian and the other one is French. They have a little boy together and they live in Berlin. 

With Anna and Tanja we talked about:

• Building a non-conventional and multicultural family
• Choosing a biological donor and defining his role in transmission
• The difficulty to transmit citizenship when you didn’t carry the child
• Creating a precedent and actually changing the law
• The burden of knowing that our decisions will shape our kid’s cultural identity

Happy blending! 🥣

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The Big Blend’s website: https://www.thebigblend.co/ 

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🇵🇸🇱🇧🇨🇦🇯🇴 This episode’s guest is Marwan Farraj, a Palestinian-Lebanese activist and a super dad.

With Marwan, we talked about:

• Feeling Palestinian-Lebanese but having neither passports
• Transmitting culture through activism
• Educating kids about the state of the world & giving them the knowledge to navigate through their multiple cultures
• Managing different religious beliefs in the home

Happy blending!

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The Big Blend’s website: https://www.thebigblend.co/ 

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