Like Us SBS Audio

As more and more businesses become aware of the lack of diversity in their boardrooms, working groups and generally across their organisation, underrepresented minorities can sometimes find themselves expected to represent. This can cause many levels of discomfort.

Language can be such a major part of understanding culture and history, and has been used as a tool of colonialism. Maintaining bilingualism in cross-cultural contexts is difficult. So what happens if you can't speak your mother tongue? Do you feel you belong even less?

Mothers. There is so much to talk about. How do we as children, navigate and understand how we are being shown love, especially when it looks vastly different to how those around us are being raised?

Code switching means shifting or manipulating your behaviour depending on the social context you're in. It’s a thing, even former US President Barack Obama does it. But is it good for us?

At times, the line between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation can seem very fine.

Biracial, multiracial, multiethnic... words like these are part of our toolkit of self-identification. So surely as individuals we have the right to choose how, when and if we use these identifiers? In this episode of Like Us, Anna Yeon, Noè Harsel and Zione Walker-Nthenda discuss race and representation on TV, and the moment that made Noè identify as biracial.