Foreign Lenses Ajä, Ayen & Nyakelei

VIEWERS DISCRETION ADVISED!!! In today’s episode we talk about a topic that might be a little sensitive and a lot of people don’t talk about in our community...family and domestic violence/abuse.

As children of immigrants, education is one of the main reasons why our parents decided to migrate here so their children can have the education that they have been deprived off due to state of our country. Often you would find that in a Sudanese household it is an expectation for us to go to university and get a degree but is getting a degree really worth the cost and the stress??

We share our personal education journey with you guys on today’s episode.

Define success and how you measure it?
Do you deem yourself successful? Why or why not?
Who is the most successful person you know?
Do you think your race impacts your levels of success in your field???
Do you think the society we live in limits our views of success?

Love & Relationship (platonic, family relationships and romantic)

⁃ What is your definition of love?
⁃ Do you believe love can be conditional or unconditional?
⁃ Do you think blood is thicker than water? - falling out with a friend? Vs a family member
⁃ If a gun is held your cousin’s head that you don’t really know or your friend that you have a strong connection with?
⁃ Comparison on how we as a younger generation may view water being thicker than blood. Eg, location, we tend to relate to each other here in Australia because of the shared experiences.
⁃ Family breakdowns, how this has an impact on the kids?

⁃ Do you think guys and girls can purely have a plutonic relationship? Why and why not?
⁃ Where do we learn to love romantically coming from an African home where there is not a lot of love and affection. Do you think this impacts the way we love romantically in this society?
⁃ What do you think about the concept of “black men don’t cheat”? And does this affect the way they love romantically?
⁃ The we date in this society compared to the way our parents dated back then? Do you think the way our parents dated back then reduces chances of divorce? Emotional dating? Vs Rational dating?
⁃ We don’t know how to date? Love languages?

How did you or do you cope with racism/discrimination
⁃ Systematic racism? - Job opportunities, being hired for diversity not necessarily your qualities.
⁃ How do you think racism impacts how we interact with one another as a black community - eg, the indirect ideology that there can only be one black person succeeding in one particular profession for example, sports or YouTube channels, makeup businesss.
⁃ What do you think about being grouped as one, where do you think this Ideology originated from? Automatically getting embarrassed by another black person’s actions?
⁃ What do you think of the statement “you’re so lucky to be Australia instead of America”. Do you think we have it easier here, eg. racism, police brutality.
⁃ What do you think about the fact that we sometimes feel guilty about sharing and discussing your experiences of racism?
⁃ How do we move forward - platform, uplifting each other and she’s light on our successes