From our experiences as individuals and as participants in our Asian communities in the Caribbean, we realize that there are some struggles that may not be completely unique, but are expressed uniquely because of our position as second-generation Asian people who grew up in the Caribbean, and who may even move out of the Caribbean to experience dating, romance, and prospects of marriage (if any of that is your thing). 

In this episode, we draw from our own experiences and our interpretation of knowing other people's accounts in our own Asian Caribbean community to talk about how "dating consciousness" is formed from children's upbringing in Sint Maarten as second-generation Asian migrants, and how that has informed (some) contemporary experiences and challenges with dating. 

Some of the topics we touch upon are feeling "restricted" particularly as girls and women related to thinking /talking about dating, feeling ill-prepared when actually dating, feeling grief as a result of fraught tightrope walking when talking to your family about who you're dating, and the lack of language around the possibility of dating outside heteronormative expectations. 

We look forward to listeners dropping us lines for anything that we've missed because we know that there is a breadth of complex experiences and insights that you have experienced that we didn't think of covering. Thanks a lot again for your contributions to making this episode!