EP 18 – The chameleon

Kiyo Egashira is American and also Japanese/Irish. He lives in the UK.

We chat about:

• Limited connections to the ‘homeland’

• ‘Acting’ white

• Before anything being American

• A moment of silence for Pearl Harbour

• Keeping a lid on racial trauma

• Internment camps in the USA

• The impact of 911

• Hawaii: the racial melting pot

• Non-white workplaces

• Hapa (mixed) people being more normal

• White privilege everywhere (except Hawaii?)

• Getting the Japanese entry form

• White first-names and Japanese middle-names

• Blossom and Fast Eddy

• The pressure of naming your baby

Mixed media: The Sign of the Chrysanthemum by Katherine Paterson

Guest: Kiyo Egashira

Edited by: Kate Robinson