EarWaves Jaipreet and Rajdeep

We talk to Avraj and Kavneet Chaggar about cultural assimilation and how they adjusted to the cultural differences when they moved from Kenya to England in early 2004.  Integrating into unfamiliar communities can be daunting and challenging. People often feel as if they have to compromise their culture, beliefs and identity in order to be accepted by the dominant culture. Can we maintain our heritage and still integrate with Western culture? Listen and find out!

Since the inequitable murder of George Floyd, who was killed for being black, we have all come together to learn, listen and educate ourselves. We wanted to take this opportunity to explore how we, as the South Asian community,  can be allies for our black brothers and sisters. We explore the issues of anti-blackness in the South Asian community, colourism, racism, 'brown privilege' and come to some conclusions about what more we should be doing while standing together against racism. We are honoured to have two very incredible guests Justina Omotayo and Mayeen Malik join us for this very important episode. 

If you have any questions, email us at earwavespodcast@gmail.com

Mayeen Malik's article.

Organisations:
Black Lives Matter
Black Visions Collective
The Red Card
List of resources

Welcome to our first ever podcast! It's been on the cards for a while, so here it is. 

We are excited to share What COVID-19 made us do....(in all honesty, this was supposed to released a month ago, however one of us decided to get COVID! Haha).

We are also looking forward to having some meaningful, real and life-changing conversations with you all. 

If you want to share your thoughts with us, drop us an email at earwavespodcast@gmail.com

Peace!

RJ