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and i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera 64 days into the job u.s. president joe biden has had his 1st news conference he announced a new goal to have 200000000 americans vaccinated against coronavirus by the end of his 1st 100 days in office biden also defended his handling of the growing arrivals of refugees and migrants at the us mexico border calling it a seasonal increase he said why most of the people at the border of being sent back children should be turned away. we're sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming we're trying to work out now with mexico their willingness to take more of those families back but we that's what's happening not getting across the border and those who are coming across the border who are unaccompanied children we're moving rapidly to try to put in place what was dismantled and i said for example of all the children coming across the border over 70 percent are either

16 or 17 years old we're not talking about people ripping babies from mother's arms and a little 3 year old stand on the border less and i think it's one and a half percent. china has sanctioned a number of british politicians lawyers and organizations over what it cost lies and this information about john they move is in response to sanctions by the u.k. u.s. canada and e.u. over alleged schiemann rights violations against wade or cinching john and argentina has announced it will suspend flies from brazil chile and mexico to prevent the spread of new strains of corona virus that measures will come into effect on saturday the government says it's concerned about the rising number of infections in neighboring a president which has recorded more than 12000000 cases those are the headlines on al-jazeera i'll be back with more news right after the story stay with us. in russia. it brings fame

fortune and power. one a one east investigation on al-jazeera. hi i'm femi oke a on today's episode of the strangway take a look at an intimate film about a korean family growing up in the 1980s in more arkansas that is resonating with asian americans today in our ng is an intimate look at the asian american experience with great candle at a time when asian americans themselves are facing races attacks in america have you seen the film what do you think about it you can jump into comments a big part of today show.

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when you. join us to talk about me now here why it is resonating why people are loving it in the united states right now we have s. that we have absentee we have thing it's really nice to see. we have to agree right now no spoilers ok no this one is the other giveaway the fill we could possibly healthy as welcome to the string tell everybody what you doing thanks so much for having me my name is esther you know. i'm a reporter at n.p.r. affiliate in chicago be easy and i cover race class and communities from the station and i including asian american communities here thank you for being with us i know anthony tell us what does a chat audience need to know about you. i meant to be a writer and sociology professor based in los angeles and like yes sir i focus a lot on immigration is an american issues and happy to be your half and half thing into introduce yourself to an international audience around the world. my name is

being channeled a 3rd culture kid also serial entrepreneurs devoted to building new worlds that deliver socio economic equity particularly against an organization known as goal house where the largest collective of baby leaders in the country and as a release to monogamy were focused on systemic solutions to ensure the output accurate and prominent portrayal of a.p.i. stories people so forth and so good to have you have what we are asked a lot of asian americans about this film and they were very forthcoming about why they liked it the impact it had on them have been listen to that and then i want you to pick up off the back of the. the movie felt very real not and stick to the asian immigrant experience and the korean myself but even just really small things like how the different generations act or how their grandchildren act all around the grandparents. it's it's just feels good to be

recognized in that way you know just like the characters in the movie my parents came over with a bad immersion in either work or labor jobs. you know just the way they are now just to provide for their families and so. to start from scratch in my to build up your own business and start whole new life in america is when we will to begin using american at all of i guess and nodding their heads estella to cuba in law to go ahead. well when you guys played the trailer and the lead getting i started tearing up all over again i think that was my reaction initially when i 1st saw the trailer for the 1st time and you know when the movie i finally got to watch it the 1st 15 minutes i was already extraordinary emotional and at the end of the film i had my own memories just flooding back to me in a way that's never happened to me before and so there's a real power in seeing yourself on the screen i didn't even know to expect that art

to want to end it when ari is the 1st movie that you know it's happened for me and so i found it incredibly powerful i thought i saw you go running during the trailer not any green and it leaving it out i know you've already seen that film what what made you smile again. i mean the grinning is the way to cover up the fact that i was about to to just play guess there because it's just such a rare moment to see asian american stories on screen i had i watched the film but the point where i really lost it is when i listen to an interview with lee isaac john who wrote the film and just my got of getting goosebumps are now just the the fight that there is for asian americans to be able to render them themselves and print things green. that never happens and so when it all came to a head in minority and we got to just experience the full humanity of reason americans i thought how rare is this moment. i

rish i get there to cry but i'm in my tear quote earlier this week has been a terrible week but i think my 1st reaction is you have to remember this is not just a representation of this film is just excellent and this is one of the only 4 films in history to win the 2 top prizes sundance the grand jury prize an audience prize a k. this is the best film and the most popular film and also of course as we all know has famously made steve young its star its korean american star no less the 1st asian american actor to be nominated for best actor at the oscars so so that in 2 itself is to be celebrated but i think the other piece the m.p.'s are really pointing to is the reason this is also really special is because it's at once an asian and an american story and by virtue of the native american story that we just have never see the asian side you know we're on the backdrop of crazy ridge asians in the bling empires the world which we absolutely has but we also forget the white house income disparity of any community in this country and so looking at someone

who's a farmer who's trying to live their american dream the bucolic self in arkansas is just really special as an asian and then on the american side i mean there's barely any english in this film and this reminds me that you know 75 percent of his grew up in a bilingual household in this commute in this country 80 percent of hispanics grow up in the bilingual household miss entirely spanish roman and so it just reminds us of this not only new face of america but this face and voice of america that has been here and how that's going to perpetuate new conversations about what that even means. thing i tell you i totally see that i want to just explain for people who haven't seen the film is a very simple premise it's a story of a huge family who moved to arkansas and mistake jake of has a plan to build a farm so it's the american dream but with korean americans and they struggle that is every immigrant story or the wild which i think is one of the research that so many people gravitate towards the story i want to see if i can ring some tears out

of being by sharing this cake take a look. it was. just for you again it will cost little soul to do it 1st. yeah. but you develop. a. big. family thing when you're heartless. everest of. these things are big things family. tastes and smells of home it means so much to i know to all of you if even being about connecting and a big when you were saying this this this idea about you don't see this depiction on movies you haven't done this before esther you start. you know you

have got to playing these clips and i'm not going to make it through the segment you know as my panelist and i was mentioned asian americans have some of the why is this is this parodies in terms of income household income and education in the u.s. you got the very top of the top and then you've got the very bottom and so something that. was really helpful was in me not to you saudis you know this farmer and i remember my own parents and just how they struggle to put on food on the table and all the different jobs that they try and the language barriers me having to translate for them you know when when they had any sort of dealings with with the government. these are all memories that are deeply embedded and i actually as you know just over the years i've been in this country now for more than 30 years i have sort of suppressed or forgotten about them and this is the movie that brought

it all back and i think that it's really important to depict these struggles in a very accurate and detailed and terrible but also you know these poignant beautiful ways and so i think that's what minati is for us and i hope to see many more films like it in the future i think about the grab a lot as a part out. you read my mind i would have us think on it was that i was a. that i was a kid of immigrants that were raised by a grandma because mom and dad were working so much and so for me the grandmother character. was just so that anchor you know i think about like like the character in the film my grandmother was somebody experienced war in the home country but you know never really spoke about it but you could see the ways in which. that 60 years that a trauma played into the way the the experience of life even here in the united states and so i mean that you would see that just. the honing in on that moment of

joy that just means so much for for the grandmother and the daughter and the whole family it's just i mean literally reminded me of my entire of growing up with my grandma in that built the generational household she's a very special clam os i'm going to play one more clip from the film and then i'm going to move on to what being less talking about which was the reality right well in the states and the headlines that are making news for asian american communities around the country has one last lost look at minami and the grandma. and willing to tell yeah. i'm going to that could have been a bit tricky to. blue had i did. that who.

it is hillary isn't really. didn't tell it to and later on the whole pretty deep pool pretty keep only pretty pretty. so the same time as so many asian americans a delighted at the success of men are in all the nominations it's getting then this becomes the headlines atlanta shootings asian women among 8 killed at 3 u.s. bars one story but in the background of that it's been happening in the past 12 months is this idea of a reality of of attacks on asian communities asian elderly just asian people and then hashtags stop asian hate the hashtag going viral it's a conversation that needs to be into the mainstream it is getting there being how do you make the connection between a beautiful intimate candid film and the headlines that we're seeing right now in

america. yeah i mean i think it underscores for me the life is rosy right all flowers beautiful things and then oprah q. and then for some reality of being a jew identity individual an asian american an asian woman and so forth and so on is you have to hold one thing you love and one thing that also makes your life challenging and i think about all of the stop asian hate activity i'm obviously enthused because our community for the really the 1st time ever but certainly the 1st time in any form of this in 60 years is rallying together to fight back even harder challenges you know is there just multiple goals sort of confounding factors here we're not just talking about an asian populace the majority of those attacked are women and elders which underscores a larger sort of widespread reality against women and women of color 2nd is especially i don't want to decenter the spa experience here that is a lower income experience and once again you know we have to ask ourselves are we doing enough for all economic brackets in our community and then finally of course

this is a broader weapons conversation the fact that individual citizen can buy an assault weapon easily is ridiculous in this country needless to say we also need thorough background checks so that would not have prevented what happened unfortunately lana the 2nd piece though in terms of how we piece together this near term. these near term incidents with the farming to trails of the knotty are that there are 2 ways to solve anything there's what we call sticks and then what we call carrots sticks are near term punitive corrective measures providing financial relief to the victims and the victims' families that exist but 2nd is we also need to get to the core of the issue and a lot of these issues stem from the notion of perpetual foreigner syndrome where asians throughout history have sometimes been invited in this country or been invited to corporations that have been fully integrated where they're fully accepted where they're fully empowered to ascend to the c. suite ranks and so the reason our is so important on the 2nd tranche this care of peace is because we need positive and affirming multitude will put trails of our

people so they want to see is one dimensional beings as was created in the sixty's with no. it's like the model minority but then secondly we also have to use art as well as the economy as weapons or we can financially empower ourselves to not only empower our communities but also empower others as well to know or contribution so it's a very complex issue but if you think about it in those 2 halves i think i want to play this to you this is helen in and she talks about the conversation about the hate attacks on the asian american communities and how the hashtags are bringing people together and a her take on that and i'm going to get you to come immediately off the back of helen let's have a look that have a listen i started out as feeling a lot of grief but now i'm just angry and angry that our hash tag is even stop asian hate because i don't understand why people hate us and of those people who hate us so badly i don't see how i could ever change their perspective because it's

so deep rooted for someone to push our grampa into the ground so hard to his bones break or punch or grandma so violently that her eyes bleed or minimize the death of our mom and say about it was due to the result of someone's bad day i will never understand it but now we live in fear and there is no end date and i just don't know what to do. too to the point i was just made into thinking about things when there is a lot of people point to the illusion he as as somehow starting with what happened with donald trump saying this is a china virus right and i think if we look a little bit deeper in history we'll see that anti-aging and violence and sation since the menu has has extended far beyond the presidency of donald trump i mean we think about post 911 there were attacks on south asians their attack on sikh

americans and we think about the watsonville riots of the 1920 s. that targeted them up you know americans and you just you can't separate them the way that these women worst women were so dehumanised by by the killer you can divorce for divorce that from the fact that asian women on a global scale are perceived to be subservient they're sexualized by by by this country and you see how complicit folks are whenever jokes are made about asian women as nothing more than sexual objects and the fact that there's there's probably millions of us in this country that have heard that and how many folks have actually interjected and spoke up and those kind of comments were made that all contributes to what happened in. s. i want to play us and china last a comment from tom has a film that's a making that connection between the news and notes and creativity this is what tom

has to say about the recent headlines of attacks on as an american to run a game come in mentally off the back of his comment a satellite. and then turn on the news and all i hear is a national debate whether the atlanta shooting is a sex crime or a hate crime and that's been the most infuriating point because it feels like a diversion from what we should be focused on i mean why is there even a debate what are we debating about it's a hate crime and it's dismissive and it's insulting that we're debating about this not the real issues feels like america telling the asian american community you know what they feel like a bargain rights like you know we'll give you hate crime and you guys quiet down for a little bit. and you know personally i think this is far from being over. absolutely what tom is saying there is really resonating with me as a member of the media in the last week or so it is the coverage has been less than

acceptable i think and so something to remember is that. objectivity really does not exist and so when asian journalists are told that they cannot cover the story even with their language skills even with their cultural knowledge that they cannot cover these stories because they are agents and they're unable to be objective that means that as the media will miss the true story they will get they will not be able to get the real story because they lack that access to so i think something that you know we've so many people have just taken on the police statements as fact and that's been really. and i'm just going to i'm going to have to say it's interesting because since when do we just assume that whatever the perpetrator says act the action what do you mean when you say interesting esta. well i do it i mean i mean as and as a journalist i think we need to do better i think we need to find out what really

happened and if you don't have journalists who can get to these communities speak the language get into these immigrant neighborhoods and do the reporting that's really required to do these stories justice then we're not going to be able to get the real story we are just going to be parroting what the police say and what the perpetrator says anthony. and you know and i think in the moments when we see particularly our women from our community asian american women i think above the journalists can be who's been covering violence for much of the past couple years and every single time but she takes it upon herself to some to the story of violence against even american women she experience as massaging this backlash on social media emails and so i just think about where we are what role do you do 6 men have to play in this in this in all of this happening. being

a bum just looking a at your twitter feed and it's full of actors a lot. of the popcorn. just get over the meaningful deep stuff here where you talk about people like how can we help support the asian american communities and you are giving them ideas your retreating a sharing and then you also looking at leadership as well as an asset to the issues that we're bringing up right now in this conversation. i mean let's go let's piggyback off as ok and then as for you back off what anthony said as the very clear violence against women is not an issue for women this is mostly because of men there are some women who talk with this is a male problem period and so there are 2 solutions here as always number one the words of frederick douglass it is sometimes easier to grow good children than it is to repair broken men the fact that a 4th of us including myself under the age of 18 in this country grow up in

a single parent household that's almost always a mother indicates that we are emotional and the economic center of gravity is a woman which makes us reimagine what is possible that we grow up respecting women so we need to find solace and encouragement that that is happening and continue to raise children that understand that gender is a strength and it's something that needs to be seen exactly of all the other side though is we need to repair a lot of these broken men the fact that an individual can have a euphemistic bad day which is by the way on that captain and i'm glad that he's gone right now for the for the time being the fact that he can utilize that and then de fall as a domestic terrorist to fetishizing women for their own death is insanity is absolute insanity and so there's a couple things that we have to decouple here one is correcting those sick individuals in domestic terrorists and there's a lot of not only education but punitive measures that need to go down there but the 2nd piece as well is what esther was alluding to and that's media's fallacy

here there were 2 big issues that i as a consumer was troubled by a number one the fact that i knew that this domestic terrorist went to church before i even knew the release names of the victims asterix we need to make sure that victims' families are comfortable if that is in sanity is crazy why in the world would we humanize an individual domestic terrorist and by the way we did the same thing with insurrectionist right including mr buffalo bill in the bikini who apparently couldn't eat certain foods in his jail cell and so media needs to do a better job of not just being thoughtful of pronouncing names right. and getting the sequence right but doing their homework and that it's incumbent on all of us so that's number one the broader issue goes i go back to carrots and sticks this is a long term generational solution and it is going to take both policy and punitive measures like what and congressman any can does in trying to empower more a.p.i. and really multicultural leaders but the other half in this needs to be a great rally cry for all of us is if we wait for the law to keep us safe we are

too late they're already 6 asian women dead right being do you will get an answer as to what i think is extraordinary that we got to this point from a movie it was a beautiful moving movie book it opens up a bigger conversation there was one thing i guess thanking suppose up as one thing that i know you all wondering if you haven't seen the film have a look at my laptop what is menarche have a look here it grows in the pockets of immigrants dies in the 1st year flourishes in the 2nd purifies the water and soil around it is a plant it has a and if you haven't seen it yet may obvious color a streaming on all and most good streaming platforms and if you're lucky and you can go to the movie theater safely you can also see in the movie theater a step. anthony thank you for being on the string today appreciate you taking.

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