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NAME: STEPHANIE NYEKAZI-WAMI
SOCIOLOGY 201 EXTRA-CREDITS
FILM “BETWEEN: LIVING IN THE HYPHEN” BY ANNE MARIE NAKAGAWA.
This film is a documentary focusing on 7 Canadians who are of mixed-race, where one parent is a white-European and the other is a visible minority. These participants gave their perspectives on their bi-racial identity, acceptance in the society and how their lives have been affected. Anne attempts to get at the root of what it means to be multi-ethnic in a world that wants each person to fit into a single category.
Some participants in this film, where given identities by others, like Fred a male participant is Chinese, Scottish, Swedish, Irish, his teacher particularly told him he was Chinese, because his father was Chinese whenever he tries to identify as Canadian, he got laughed at when he told a Chinese guy he was Chinese too, Shannon a female participant is coast Salish, Swedish, Hungarian, suzette also a female participant is Caribbean, German and people taught she was African too, whenever her father comes to pick her from school, people would say that she was adopted and would always ask if she was, because her father was white and she was brown skin. Tinu a male participant is east-Indian and German. Tina a female participant is British, African-American but people would always ask if she was Chinese or Hawaiian and majority of the times she was questioned if she was Hawaiian. Charlene a female participant is Celtic and black-foot people identified her as Italian or their own group. Karina is south-Asian, black, Russian and German.
Many of these participants described a sense of not belonging like; Shannon, she said she never fits in, also Suzette was questing for a world to fit in, she remembers how, in her 20s, she felt as though she had "no home country" and wished for a place where she looked like everyone else. Karina also talks of a shift in her life, when she attended a school with her sister in Zimbabwe with all black people,
SOCIOLOGY 201 EXTRA-CREDITS
FILM “BETWEEN: LIVING IN THE HYPHEN” BY ANNE MARIE NAKAGAWA.
This film is a documentary focusing on 7 Canadians who are of mixed-race, where one parent is a white-European and the other is a visible minority. These participants gave their perspectives on their bi-racial identity, acceptance in the society and how their lives have been affected. Anne attempts to get at the root of what it means to be multi-ethnic in a world that wants each person to fit into a single category.
Some participants in this film, where given identities by others, like Fred a male participant is Chinese, Scottish, Swedish, Irish, his teacher particularly told him he was Chinese, because his father was Chinese whenever he tries to identify as Canadian, he got laughed at when he told a Chinese guy he was Chinese too, Shannon a female participant is coast Salish, Swedish, Hungarian, suzette also a female participant is Caribbean, German and people taught she was African too, whenever her father comes to pick her from school, people would say that she was adopted and would always ask if she was, because her father was white and she was brown skin. Tinu a male participant is east-Indian and German. Tina a female participant is British, African-American but people would always ask if she was Chinese or Hawaiian and majority of the times she was questioned if she was Hawaiian. Charlene a female participant is Celtic and black-foot people identified her as Italian or their own group. Karina is south-Asian, black, Russian and German.
Many of these participants described a sense of not belonging like; Shannon, she said she never fits in, also Suzette was questing for a world to fit in, she remembers how, in her 20s, she felt as though she had "no home country" and wished for a place where she looked like everyone else. Karina also talks of a shift in her life, when she attended a school with her sister in Zimbabwe with all black people,