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Hello I ‘m a 1.5 generation immigrant that moved to Canada in grade 3. During my school days I often felt a bit distant and had a hard time making friends since I felt really different from them . However , my connection with my culture remains strong since I speak my mother tongue at home with my parents and did singing and dancing performances at cultural events . Until grade 7 I always felt as though I was “ too Indian” and not Canadian enough like my sister . I found it hard to connect with my classmates because I never really watched the same shows or played the same games as them . I even tried to force myself to watch the movies and shows my friends liked . However around the time I reached grade 8, I made a best friend and I started to open up to her about my culture and have started to embrace my identity. Nowadays I no longer force myself to consume the western media that my friends consume but instead watch English self improvement TH-cam videos and people that inspire me . I also learned that I can be friends with anyone based on shared experiences and activities and respect each other’s differences instead of having to belong to the same culture .

Hello I ‘m a 1.5 generation immigrant that moved to Canada in grade 3. During my school days I often felt a bit distant and had a hard time making friends since I felt really different from them . However , my connection with my culture remains strong since I speak my mother tongue at home with my parents and did singing and dancing performances at cultural events . Until grade 7 I always felt as though I was “ too Indian” and not Canadian enough like my sister . I found it hard to connect with my classmates because I never really watched the same shows or played the same games as them . I even tried to force myself to watch the movies and shows my friends liked . However around the time I reached grade 8, I made a best friend and I started to open up to her about my culture and have started to embrace my identity. Nowadays I no longer force myself to consume the western media that my friends consume but instead watch English self improvement TH-cam videos and people that inspire me . I also learned that I can be friends with anyone based on shared experiences and activities and respect each other’s differences instead of having to belong to the same culture .

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SUPER helpful! Merci! 🙏

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What a great topic to explore! It reminds me of getting to know a idioms of a culture gives you massive insights into their values.

Also people from Latin America and Africa and Asia also immigrated with money and degrees to North America not everyone from these continents is poor.

an expat is a glorfied tourists.

Hey Kritika, great video. I teach English to French speakers and this is super useful to understand what we Frenchies do unconsciously and how to modify it to sound more English. Thanks a lot!

Firstly, this is an excellent video, and I appreciate the perspectives! I think what you shown here is that the love languages ARE applicable across multiple cultures. The trickiness is in interpretation. For example, while physical touch, to me, is an extremely important love language - whether it’s a hug or having my back scratched, or my shoulders rubbed - I would be very weirded out if a stranger come up and did any of these things for me/to me, and would never offer any of those things to another person, unless I was sure that the other person was receptive to it. Regarding the question at the end of the video, personally, I would group spending time in community as quality time (especially if it’s with people you love), which IS one of the love languages. Similarly, I would group the “speaking section” in with Words of Affirmation. Glad to dialogue with anyone more some time. Again, great video!

I also touched up on this subject. Here's part 1 of that video. th-cam.com/video/bKgqCy-Gn9w/w-d-xo.html

I'm not a second generation immigrant, but I'm a 1.5 generation immigrant (which means I moved as a child) and I still relate to this :)

my neighbor always offers to oil my hair bc her kids wont let her do it to them, and it makes my hair so soft

I just started learning French and I was so shocked at how much I like French music specifically French Pop, and I don’t even understand anything! But it sounds so airy and light like a lullaby.. maybe it’s the style of singing from the artist or the just French language? 🤣But I’m so motivated to continue learning!!

What’s linguistics discrimination

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Thank you so much for making this video, I have beeb practicing yoga and spirituality, even I just finished my yoga teacher training in India, I still couldn't pronounce Mantra and Chakra correctly until now, please keep on making this! You are so good at identifying the differences.

We have a new dr where I work her last name is Thakkar. How would an American pronounce this? She has tried to help me but due to her accent I just can’t get it, but really want to get outside my box of English or American only lol. Thanks

This is so helpful and interesting but I'm always nervous my attempts to pronounce things correctly will seem like mocking.

This would be much more helpful if you a) slowed down and b) stopped ridiculing people who don't say words in your language correctly. I teach about university academic writing to approx. 60% international students, many of whom are from India, especially this year. I would not think of ridiculing them for the way they speak English. They are, at least, trying. I do ask them, because I believe pronunciation is important, especially when using their names, how to pronounce them. It's respectful. Perhaps, instead of correcting "trendy Indian words," demonstrate more of the phonetics, such as you did on the "kk" part. That was helpful. I know the w sounds like a v, but what about dh or gh and the j at the beginning and end of a word. That's more helpful.

If you're not an immigrant, why do you always go through immigration? Touché

fancy words are racist. got it.

I'm really glad I found your channel before starting the journey of learning the French language. Thank you!!!

Love it ❤

Great video

Can you please pronounce (Sweta)?

Love hearing your insight as always 💗 thanks for the beautiful video 💗💗 love from the train back to New York 🗽

Love hearing your insight as always 💗 thanks for the beautiful video 💗💗 love from the train back to New York 🗽

Truly touching stories and very very beautifully put together!

So interesting! I love that you brought up trying to find your identity in speaking different languages...definitely something I've pondered and would love to chat about more :)

I'm so excited to have been a part of this! (Also, the Loons content!) Miss you so much, roomie.

Oh my gosh Kritika!! This video is an absolute masterpiece 🤩🤩🤩I love the way it was put together. ✨💛 please post more like this! I’m obsessed!! 😍

This video is so well done and frames the love language idea in a totally new light! I would say Midwest culture (and maybe more broadly American in general) values expressing love through food (like giving your friends the leftovers when they come over for dinner). There’s nothing like a Tupperware of thanksgiving leftovers from grandmas house lol

Just my 2 cents. Most expats are coming to another country with an already established work contract from either the company sending them or the company receiving them. 90 something % of those contracts come with generous wages, better housing and an included car. That separates them from the immigrant mass to a better status, that of an expat. Summing up, an expat is an immigrant with better status and benefits.

Thank you! It's a classist word that is annoying, especially in Europe where Northern Europeans call themselves "Expats" but label Southern And Eastern Europeans as "immigrants" those Brits retirees in Spain are just as immigrant as a Spaniard who works in the UK

I love your video... I'm Costarican but I grew up in the States where my whole life I was referred to as an immigrant and when I moved down here to Costa Rica I ran into a lot of mostly Americans who considered themselves Expats, I'd never heard of the term since the only word I was ever pretty much taught or called for someone out of their own country was immigrant, I experienced a lot of arrogance from not all but from a lot of people that consider themselves Expats, like yes I live in your country but I'm better then you, not all I must clarify and not most either but a lot of them, so growing up in the states where I experienced such hate and racism I've decided to do research on the word and I came around your video, thank you for the explanation from now on everyone is going to be called an immigrant in my book..😅😅

Could you help me pronounce Aarayna and Aarana these are indian girls names and i know i'm getting it wrong, Please! Thank you!

I could not agree more with this! Ethnocentrism is killing language learning. The lack of integrity deteriorates the ability to speak with confidence.

Madam ji sinj croatia kesa aera hai

Absolutely amazing getting to do this podcast with you. This video is so well done, and I’m looking forward to more convos like this in the future!

A good idea and a good format. Keep doing the good!

There’s definitely a divide with class and ethnicity when it comes to using the word expat and immigrant. I noticed that expat is commonly used more by western Europeans (mostly English & Irish) people and Americans…. Usually white people. I moved from Croatia to Germany and only plan on staying here for a year. A man on in a reddit group stated he was a (white) American expat in Germany who will stay there for a few years. Ok what’s the difference? Seems like there is none. One of my life goals is to move to either Finland or the US and live there permanently. Moving to the US has been a very difficult process and I still consider myself a migrant/immigrant. In Croatia I met an Australian couple who referred to themselves as expats but had pretty much the same difficulties relocating, yet still called themselves expats. So an expat is someone who doesn’t want to be part of another culture just live there while an immigrant does? I would disagree. Living in Germany for a few months I have encountered soo many immigrants who do not care about German culture or even have desire to learn the language. They are simply there for financial benefits. This wasn’t my intention when moving to Germany but since Croatia is a poorer country I am viewed as the immigrant while people from the US or UK who are already financially stable are expats…. Even if they don’t care abut the culture or language. In American culture in particular an immigrant is almost always considered a non white person usually from a poorer country moving to the US for financial gain. I have many friends in America and when I referred to myself as an immigrant they were confused as to why I would label myself that? Because in their eyes a white European moving at his own leisure is not an immigrant. In Europe I am still considered an Immigrant for moving from a poorer county to a more less poorer country, regardless of reasons why I moved. In my own conclusion: An expat is an immigrant. Usually a snobby white person middle or upper class who is too scared to refer to themselves as an immigrant because in their own culture that word is commonly reserved for poor people and/or people of color.

Hey, I will be in Sudan soon, you are welcome to visit. I am not sure what Sudan offers but should have a lot of culture and history with a civilization that dates to 20k - 30k bce! Again a very thought-out video. Will be waiting for more and see you in Khartoum!!

Loved your experience and narration! Waiting for your next:-)

Peep the new editing skills! Nice text bubbles!! And stinky baby made a surprise cameo!

The narrative flows really well. Great work!!

It's really a very wonderful experience being a nomad ☺

Wow. I love this video, really needed to see it actually. I was gonna quote something but really everything from 6:10 on hit me so deeply. Really though, letting go of the expectation that one place is going to cradle me perfectly, as you put it. And embracing all the little things that are my home. Kids laughing, the crackling of fire in a wood stove, the sound of a stream, walking through a forest, rain on a metal roof, just taking a walk by myself down the road… all things that remind me of home. But i want to be more aware of the daily things that feel like home to me, and this video sparked that for me. Thanks :)

I do not intend to come across as negative, you seem to be a positive and thoughtful young woman. But, you might expand the variety of references you use for this type of discussion. I reference Thomas Sowell, he has covered this subject extensively. For example, Ebonics is used by a small number of African Americans, almost exclusively poor and poorly educated, not many African American Doctors, Lawyers, or Engineers communicate using ebonics on the job, or in their personal lives. Ebonics, is a form of language that did not, repeat did not, originate anywhere on the African continent. It is way of speaking that was brought to North America from Britain in the 17th century, it is the language of poor whites first in Britain by the poor and uneducated, then in the antebellum south, that enslaved African Americans picked up, most have opted to speak using better English, few have decided not to. I could go on, but I do not match Thomas Sowell for clarity, or brilliance. The question is, do you seek truth, or affirmation in a certain echo chamber?