23 - Being Passionate About Chinese Culture ≠ Pro-CCP w/Stephen Ah Sen What Kind of Asian Are You?

【S2E4】Being Passionate About Chinese Culture ≠ Pro-CCP w/Stephen Ah Sen
Host: Kyle Leung (@kyle.lhkhk)
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Guest: Stephen Ah Sen (@stephenahsen) https://www.instagram.com/stephenahsen/
Shadow Danceland’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shadowdanceland/
Stephen’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/stephenahsen/videos
“I didn’t know myself, so I asked my friends first” - Stephen Ah Sen (when asked what kind of Asian he was)
In today’s episode, I was joined by Stephen Ah Sen, a Diaspora Asian from Mauritius. He is a dance teacher/dancer (Chinese dance/hip pop) living in Mauritius. He is also a youtuber that shows his audience his life living in Mauritius as an ethnic Chinese person. His goal is to highlight the Chinese experience in Mauritius as well as promote Mauritius’ Chinatown to the world.
In our conversation, we covered topics like:
His background, his feelings towards his identity, and his Diaspora Asian experience being born and raised in Africa
How he didn’t know what kind of Asian he is and how studying in Singapore helped him figure out his Asian identity
Racism against Chinese in Mauritius
His Overseas Chinese identity (He’s not from China!)
His passions (Chinese dance/literature/culture)
Being passionate about Chinese culture isn’t being pro-CCP
His Youtube channel
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Theme Music Intro: m-train-dpa.wav by hkmtrhah / Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) / https://freesound.org/s/371934/
Outro: Cinematic industrial outro by Drakensson / CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication / https://freesound.org/s/447538/
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