Welcome to Culturally – the podcast that dives into the lives of people with incredible cultural backgrounds and explores what it’s like growing up between them.

This week, I’m joined by Mattia, whose story takes us from the streets of Wuxi, China, where he grew up speaking only Chinese and Wuxi dialect, to a life-changing move to Vietnam—where he didn’t speak a word of the language.

We’ll talk about the challenges of cultural displacement, the struggle of adapting to a new world, and how his Italian-Chinese identity shaped his sense of belonging. What happens when your whole world shifts overnight? And how do you redefine home when everything around you changes?