{"id":721,"date":"2024-05-05T02:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T09:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/?p=721"},"modified":"2025-07-19T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:20:45","slug":"peggychau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/2024\/peggychau\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou\u2019re too white to be Chinese!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I have my own voice and that voice is very, very, very unique.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Creator:<br \/>\nPeggy Chau \u5468\u67cf\u8559 (she\/her)<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that you are simply a human trying to authentically identify with your cultural heritage; but for various reasons, the environment around you places barriers that prevent you from exercising agency and authentically accepting and acting out that identity. This is a common experience for biracial\/multiracial people who are often gatekept from identifying with any combination of their cultural identities. They are always too much of one, and not enough of the other&#8230;and which one they are too much or not enough of changes constantly depending on which cultural group they talk to. This severely impacts biracial\/multiracial folks&#8217; self-confidence, preventing them from finding a cultural voice with which they are most comfortable. Peggy speaks with someone who has dealt with these identity issues throughout her life, and we get a glimpse into how she navigated her identity quandary to be the culturally confident individual that she is today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"kaltura_player\" src=\"https:\/\/api.ca.kaltura.com\/p\/161\/sp\/16100\/embedIframeJs\/uiconf_id\/23450239\/partner_id\/161?iframeembed=true&#038;playerId=kaltura_player&#038;entry_id=0_wyo6c0w3&#038;flashvars[streamerType]=auto&amp;flashvars[localizationCode]=en&amp;flashvars[sideBarContainer.plugin]=true&amp;flashvars[sideBarContainer.position]=left&amp;flashvars[sideBarContainer.clickToClose]=true&amp;flashvars[chapters.plugin]=true&amp;flashvars[chapters.layout]=vertical&amp;flashvars[chapters.thumbnailRotator]=false&amp;flashvars[streamSelector.plugin]=true&amp;flashvars[EmbedPlayer.SpinnerTarget]=videoHolder&amp;flashvars[dualScreen.plugin]=true&amp;flashvars[hotspots.plugin]=1&amp;flashvars[Kaltura.addCrossoriginToIframe]=true&amp;&#038;wid=0_uyznqen9\" width=\"750\" height=\"450\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozAllowFullScreen allow=\"autoplay *; fullscreen *; encrypted-media *\" sandbox=\"allow-downloads allow-forms allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-modals allow-orientation-lock allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-presentation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"PeggyChau\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"590px\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen onload=\"var tF=this;setInterval(function(){var fh=tF.scrollWidth*0.636;if(fh&gt;400)fh=400;tF.style.height=fh+'px';},500);\" style=\"border:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/app.clas.ubc.ca\/guest\/clas\/index.php?anon=true&#038;nevid=zLZCo4y7qEXwxBwXBTQNcoR1BjsNPZeVBJooMlSrKUUOXgxHZuQ0v2acXZ8rxvR0jVvkxxONLhSnPLrj%2FS0ms4%2Bi1Yulem5SDReeqRoZWYKGLBxSfmth7%2BxIpfzhWXQpQdZBfOAxiUTCeVr5TJ37cZiVm07S1qhUdPvBlx3t%2BpeyXXAIzRJOWvHc0q3RGKMBBoCz6UZtnXmcfCCs2FvgKiyKOPCLcFZVjxElYkYf0%2F0%3D&#038;co=false&#038;minimal=true&#038;discbtn=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have my own voice and that voice is very, very, very unique. Creator: Peggy Chau \u5468\u67cf\u8559 (she\/her) Imagine that you are simply a human trying to authentically identify with your cultural heritage; but for various reasons, the environment around you places barriers that prevent you from exercising agency and authentically accepting and acting out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/2024\/peggychau\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cYou\u2019re too white to be Chinese!\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2,6],"tags":[112,38,65,66],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024podcasts","category-asix315","category-podcasts","tag-biracial-identity","tag-cultural-identity","tag-identity-denial","tag-identity-formation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycasixshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}