I think one of the novelties of being in a foreign country is that I feel twice removed from my Chinese heritage. It is very a surreal and disorienting "out of body" "out of character" "out of comfort" state. It puts into perspective for me what it means to be Chinese. What it means to be the child of immigrant parents. What it means to be the child of Taiwanese-born Chinese parents. What it means to be American-born Chinese. What it means to be an American in a foreign country. A Chinese-American in a foreign country. A tri-lingual Chinese-American in a foreign country. And it makes me wonder how much or how little the people in that place understand this layered identity. How do they process me? All the nuances, the politics, the prejudices, the social constructs, my multi-cultural values, the pieces of my heritage that I choose to wear and the other pieces I've chosen to shed-- They can't they possibly understand any of that, but what do they see instead?

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Life in a Day: June 24th, 2010

I think this is an incredible project, and I can't wait to see the end result!

http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday

"A world-wide project to create a user-generated feature film." They want people to submit raw, unedited clips from daily life. Basically it's up to the world to generate and capture incredible moments, and then they' be compiled into a movie to be debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. Such an incredible idea, I can't wait to see the movie!

Nicely done, YouTube.

Hugs and UGC,
Angela <3
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