1.2 BUT WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM? Vol. 2

Letting Go of Entitlement

New York City is a place where you get a lesson in 'entitlement' every day. Either someone is yelling at you to listen to them on the subway, billboards around Times Square smile down at you with an entitled look, or shop owners remark that this is their wine store and they know what they're talking about, not you.

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But Where Are You Really From? Vol. 2


1.2 Part XIII: Following the Exit Signs | Culture Clash

As Schema's foreign affairs correspondent Devon Wong realizes how embedded her Canadian cultural habits are within her. She tries to kick the old habits, as she adapts to new cultural ones.

1.2 Part XII: Following the Exit Signs | European Meat Markets

As Schema's foreign affairs correspondent Devon Wong makes her first stop in Geneva, Switzerland, only to experience the same Guess-Your-Ethnicity game.

1.2 Part XI: Following the Exit Signs

Schema's foreign affairs correspondent Devon Wong ventures off on a two month Euro trip, in quest to resolve questions around ethnic appearance, culture and identity.

1.2 Part X: Born Expat

Join guest contributor Stephen Ullstrom as he describes his childhood in Taiwan as a wai guo ren and through culture shock, coins the term Born Expat.

1.2 Part IX: This is real life

Join Rosel Kim as she travels back to Korea and discovers that home is not a concrete place. The simple But where are you really from? question has no simple answer.

1.2 Part VIII: A Place to Call Home

Schema's Midya Tsoy travels across the seas in search of the place she calls home.

1.2 Part VII: A Hyphenated Mess

Like Bille-Ann's spice cabinet, her identity is a mixture of different cultures, flavours and strengths mixing and simmering together to create a continually evolving identity.

1.2 Part VI: Where the Real Canadians are From

From the Prairies to the city, Ansel Brandt talks about his childhood memories and struggles, as he learns to bond with his faraway relatives and family through food.

1.2 Part V: The Identity Debate

Canadian Korean Andrea Bang travels to Prague, only to discover how her identity sparks questions and curiosity especially within the conventional and stereotypical molds.

1.2 Part IV: Dancing to the Beat of My Own Drum

We may be able to identify on a map a physical geographical location, an address that implies "I was here." But what does that mean? What value does that hold? Join Tahira Ebrahim as she struggles to answer the but where are you really from?question to the beat of her own rhythm and drum.

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