011 – S1 E10 – How might we organize communities where everyone can belong without needing to prove it?

homeroom is a podcast bridging the education gap between the classroom and the living room by starting conversations on topics impacting society. In this episode, I speak with Janet, a former Canadian government official and current cross-cultural communications educator based in Korea–about the detrimental impact of growing up in spaces where we were considered “other”. We talked about how stereotypes can have unintended consequences, why ethnocentrism is not the only way to understand cultures that are different from our own, and what dominant cultures can consider to be more accepting of minority cultures. Check out our conversation, join our ongoing discourse on social media, and subscribe for more. https://www.instagram.com/homeroomed/ — Janet is a second-generation Korean-Canadian from Toronto, Canada. She is a former Canadian government official who now lives in Seoul with a purpose to inform and educate Koreans about intercultural awareness and cross-cultural communication. Rée is a visual storyteller and educator exploring the consequences that mass education has on creativity, identity, and interpersonal connection. https://www.instagram.com/theinterdisciplinarian/ — References: Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Experiment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mcCLm_LwpE) Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong