Schem Magazine Release 1.1

Part VI: Really Not That Simple

By Guest Contributor Paul Dhillon

Globetrotter Paul Dhillon explores the complexity of living abroad.

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Part V: Same same, but different

By Guest Contributor Julia Lin

1.5 Gen, Julia Lin, describes her balancing the best of both worlds.

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Part IV : Oh, really? You were born in Guelph?

By Guest Contributor Araba Ocran-Caesar

Toronto-based entrepreneur Araba Ocran-Caesar shares her strategy to evading the ethnic-answer.

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Part III: Kinda Chinese

By Guest Contributor Cedric Sam (Comme les Chinois)

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Part II : I Come From A Land Down Under (Or a Song by Men In Hats?)

By Guest Contributor Naomi Ward

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Part I : Guessing Game

By Guest Contributor Mauree Aki Matsuska

Mauree Aki Matsusaka welcomes the curiosity about her identity.

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Intro

By Jen Sookfong Lee

The author of End of East begins our inaugural special series.

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1.1 But Where are You Really From?

With no easy answer to this often complicated question, author of End of East, Jen Sookfong Lee, begins our inaugural special series, featuring no less than SIX highly unique "But where are you really from?" stories.

Part I : Guessing Game

By Guest Contributor Mauree Aki Matsuska

Vancouver change-maker Mauree Aki Matsusaka shares her multi-layered roots, and explains her welcome attitude to the curiosity about her identity.

Part II : I Come From A Land Down Under (Or a Song by Men In Hats?)

By Guest Contributor Naomi Ward

Canadian filmmaker Naomi Ward describes the pleasure of being an ethnic conundrum.

Part III: Kinda Chinese

By Guest Contributor Cedric Sam (Comme les Chinois)

Montreal-born web developer and blogger Cedric Sam shares his perspective on being a "Montrealer, a Quebecer, a Canadian and a Francophone living in North America."

Part IV : Oh, really? You were born in Guelph?

By Guest Contributor Araba Ocran-Caesar

Toronto-based entrepreneur Araba Ocran-Caesar shares her strategy to evading the ethnic-answer when asked some of the more clever variations of "where are you really from?" ... all disguises to the real question on peoples' mind: "Where is the non-white part is from?"

Part V: Same same, but different

By Guest Contributor Julia Lin

A 1.5 Gen's story of adaption and negotiating between being the same and yet undeniably different from the rest of her Asian-looking-English-speaking peers.