Conversations With Two and a Half Asians

EP008 - WORKING WHILE ASIAN

Episode Summary

Oh boy, we're back! After a long hiatus that saw us sitting and having a long hard think about what we've done, we decided that it is indeed ok for us to be spewing these thoughts into the aether. So the microphones went hot again and caught us muttering about being cogs in the capitalist machine. Or as my film teacher used to say: we're all whores in the capitalist gangbang; we're just bickering over price.

Episode Notes

Oh boy, we're back! After a long hiatus that saw us sitting and having a long hard think about what we've done, we decided that it is indeed ok for us to be spewing these thoughts into the aether. So the microphones went hot again and caught us muttering about being cogs in the capitalist machine. Or as my film teacher used to say: we're all whores in the capitalist gangbang; we're just bickering over price.

In this week's episode! We are joined by our close friend Chris Abbas who is, much to our stunned surprise, also half-Asian. Chris is a Canadian expat living and working in the United States. We get into what it's been like for him to make his home in a country and culture that seems to not fully want to count him amongst its own. What does being in a leadership role look like? How does working in a predominantly white workplace affect you? Why are assholes seemingly hand-picked to be managers? Wait, are WE assholes too?