Tiktok Asian? Rave Asian? Ambitious Asian?
In today’s episode, we discuss the “categorization” of Asians, and why you shouldn’t feel pressured into fitting in.
OG Asian Types Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R42iz17qoAU&pp=ygUPdHlwZXMgb2YgYXNpYW5z
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW1a3UOAIaw&pp=ygUZdHlwZXMgb2YgYXNpYW5zIGZ1bmcgYnJvcw%3D%3D
🥠ABOUT FOB🥠
Song: Crying Over You
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Boo! It’s spooky season!!
In today’s episode, we go over Asian folklore and read some creepy horror stories.
📚SOURCES📚
https://exemplore.com/paranormal/The-Tragic-History-of-the-White-Lady-in-Filipino-Folklore
https://radii.co/article/long-list-chinese-ghost-stories
https://owlcation.com/humanities/liaozhai-ghosts-demons
🥠ABOUT FOB🥠
Song: Crying Over You
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SPECIAL EPISODE ALERT!
In today’s episode, we get up close and personal and discuss Asian drinking culture!
P.S: Nice to finally meet you all :)
🥠ABOUT FOB🥠
Song: Crying Over You
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It’s family vacay time and we’re heading to the motherland! 😯
In today’s episode, we go over the shared experience of visiting the mainland as a first-gen.
🥠ABOUT FOB🥠
Song: Crying Over You
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Extra school??? After school???
In today’s episode, we discuss the idea of Asian tutoring, how it’s different from Western tutoring, and our own personal experiences with it.
📚SOURCES📚
https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/diploma-vs-degree/
https://thehelpfulpanda.com/lucky-and-unlucky-chinese-numbers/
🥠ABOUT FOB🥠
Song: Crying Over You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiYs5z4xdBU
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Are you feeling exhausted? Do you suddenly hate your job, more than normal? Is this affecting your work?
If you answered yes to all three questions, you are most likely burnt out!
In today’s FOB Fact episode, we discuss burning out, what you can do to prevent it, and how to deal with the aftermath of being burned out.
📚SOURCES📚
🥠ABOUT FOB🥠
Song: Crying Over You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiYs5z4xdBU
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TW: Mentions of murder, rape, war crimes
In today’s episode, we discuss the horrors of Imperialist Japan, and how the rest of the world is still affected by it to this day.
📚SOURCES📚
https://theconversation.com/japan-has-turned-its-culture-into-a-powerful-political-tool-72821
https://www.cao.go.jp/cool_japan/english/index-e.html
https://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol21/iss1/roca.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes
https://www.britannica.com/place/Japan/The-emergence-of-imperial-Japan
https://www.insider.com/historian-nanjing-massacre-pawn-shop-owner-authentication-2022-9
Suehiro Maruo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suehiro_Maruo
🥠ABOUT FOB🥠
Song: Crying Over You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiYs5z4xdBU
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Changing your race? Subliminal videos that change your appearance to look more like a POC?
Do these terms sound like nonsense? (Hint: they ARE nonsense)
In today’s episode, we talk about the chronically-online terms “transracial” and “RCTA,” and why these terms are incredibly harmful to POC and the transgender communities.
📚SOURCES📚
https://nypost.com/2017/11/13/transracial-man-was-born-white-identifies-as-filipino/
https://nextshark.com/rcta-tiktok-race-change
https://www.distractify.com/p/rcta-meaning-tiktok
https://time.com/the-realities-of-raising-a-kid-of-a-different-race/
https://postamate.com/2020/06/american-psychiatric-association-create-guidelines-for-race-dysphoria/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dolezal
🥠ABOUT FOB🥠
Song: Crying Over You
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1,2, so sweet!
Today we did something a little different… Rhianna takes the wheel and gives Tiffany (and the audience) a bit of an internet deep-dive 👀
Tune in to hear our explanation and reaction to the viral Sorb3t TikTok!
🥠ABOUT FOB🥠
Song: Crying Over You
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Plump, glowing, hydration, boost!
In today’s episode, we talk about all things Asian skincare! What it is, the differences compared to Western skincare, where to buy Asian skincare products, all that good stuff.
🥠ABOUT FOB🥠
Song: Crying Over You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiYs5z4xdBU
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47/100, 67%, a big red F in marker…
Today, we tackle everyone’s biggest fear… getting a bad grade.
In this episode, we discuss how a low mark in school can feel like the end of the world, and how to deal with these irrational thoughts.
🥠ABOUT FOB🥠
Song: Crying Over You
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Have your parents ever bragged about your achievements to make themselves look good, but don’t seem to care about you as a person?
In today’s episode, we discuss the negative effects of being a trophy child, and what people can do to cope.
💛SUPPORT RESOURCES 💛
http://samhaa.org/ (South Asian Mental Health Alliance)
https://hongfook.ca/association/
https://www.justshapesandsounds.com/
https://www.nqapia.org/ (National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance)
💛HELPLINES💛
http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html
https://successbc.ca/counselling-crisis-support/
https://www.thecolourproject.ca/
📚SOURCES📚
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tech-support/201705/the-trophy-child
https://asianwiki.com/The_Good_Bad_Mother
🥠ABOUT FOB🥠
Song: Crying Over You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiYs5z4xdBU
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Have you ever felt like you struggled a bit with your cultural identity because you don’t really belong in one single community? For example, if you’re Chinese-Canadian, do you have a hard time “picking a side”? Do you feel like you’re not on either side?
In today’s episode, we discuss what it means to be a third culture kid, and how one can connect to their cultural roots.
📚SOURCES📚
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_culture_kid
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/t-magazine/luca-guadagnino-third-culture-kids.html
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/third-culture-kid
🥠ABOUT FOB🥠
Song: Crying Over You
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Happy Fobiversary!!!!!!! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for sticking around for THREE WHOLE YEARS 💛
In a new installment of FOB Facts, we tackle the Asian goodbye, and how to get out of it. If you don’t know what an Asian goodbye is, you’re very lucky, but also, please let us teach you for your own good.
🥠ABOUT FOB🥠
Song: Crying Over You
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Today, we tackle the “Bamboo Ceiling” and no, we’re not talking about bamboo architecture. We’re talking about the fact that Asians make up for only 1.9% of corporate officers.
📚SOURCES📚
Lessons from the Bamboo Ceiling – Association for Psychological Science – APS
The Bamboo Ceiling: Asian Americans and the Myth of the Model Minority (alliant.edu)
Cracking the 'bamboo ceiling' in career development - CareerWise (ceric.ca)
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Song: Crying Over You
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The world of fame is a mystery to many…
In today’s episode, we discuss the dark side of the Asian entertainment industry, specifically Kpop and Jpop.
📚SOURCES📚
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/world/asia/taiwan-china-singer-chou-tzu-yu.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_%26_Associates
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Song: Crying Over You
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“If they’re Filipino…immediate red flag”⛳
“We’re civilized, we’re not like those Asians that eat with their hands”
Sound familiar?
Today, we talk about the terms “Jungle” and “Fancy” Asian, and how they divide Asian communities into those that are “cool” and acceptable, and those that are “dirty” and “uneducated”.
📚SOURCES📚
https://medium.com/@jcarastotomas/reclaiming-jungle-asian-4d18fa3ff1cf
🥠ABOUT FOB🥠
Song: Crying Over You
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