In episode ten* of We Are All Americans Michael Rippens, who is half Dutch and half Filipino, discusses with Michele Jaquis the complexities of being multi-racial and therefore simultaneously fitting in nowhere and everywhere.

We Are All Americans is a podcast series Inspired by the fact that my Russian great-grandfather gained his US citizenship after serving in the US Army and my Lithuanian (or Austrian, or Russian, or Latvian - depending on who is telling the story) great-grandmother entered the US on fake passport. Each episode is a different recorded conversations about how family stories are passed down from generation to generation and what it means to be American in the contexts of multiculturalism, immigration, military service, black lives matter, white privilege, and indigeneity.

*Recorded August 19, 2018 in the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA.