What Would the Aunties Say?: A brown girl's guide to being yourself and living your best life

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We’ll also be getting into how to deal with those toxic family members and I’ll be joined by Kaushal and Vex King. Shi wanted to make sure a native speaker was involved in developing the chant, so she and her team reached out to Herman Wong, the Hong Kong-based Asian-Pacific operations director for Disney Character Voices International, the Disney division that handles translation and dubbing services.

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This is a clear example of Gender Inequality within the South Asian community and I’ll be diving into this and discussing so much more with the founder of the Pink Ladoo Project - Raj. In the climactic final number, the chant winds up merging with Ludwig Göransson’s score and “Nobody Like U,” one of the songs siblings Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell’s wrote for Turning Red’s heartthrob boy band 4*Town. In this episode, we’re discussing alcohol culture, predominantly in the Punjabi culture, whether there is a hidden problem, ways of dealing with alcoholism, and hearing the experiences of my special guest Dipz Danjal and how he was able to turn his life around.Reenee Singh to discuss how to set boundaries, how to improve in-law relationships, and whether you should live with them after. Reenee Singh to discuss how to set boundaries, how to improve in-law relationships, and whether you should live with them after marriage. I always grew up feeling a bit of anger towards Asians, and I still have moments where I'm super judgemental. Viewers tuning in to Pixar’s animated movie Turning Red may wind up wondering exactly what the characters are saying during two key sequences where they begin to chant in Cantonese.

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It's so easy to listen to the people around us, but they can be quite ignorant to what you're doing. Following on from her ‘Brown Girl Confessions’ YouTube series, Anchal launched her podcast What Would the Aunties Say?You're almost labeled as crazy, and I think everybody is just afraid to look bad, and that's really what it comes down to. Grab your chai and get ready for a fun and honest chat about all the issues that really get the Aunty’s saris in a twist and how to tackle them! In one scene in the animated film, 13-year-old protagonist Mei, who’s started turning into a giant red panda whenever she gets emotional, sits down for a family ritual meant to control her inner panda. In this episode I’m joined by Niki Mahon where we discuss why the Aunties disapprove so much and how to tackle your parents when dealing with this topic!

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But if I'm honest, I don't know how I would feel about speaking to my dad's family about it, and even bringing it up to my dad has been difficult because he immediately thinks "what's wrong with you? The Aunties and our extended family members love to remind us where we have come from and often dont want us to lose our identities, but it can be difficult to balance being the westernised instagram girl vs the traditional brown girl.I actually got kicked out of sixth form so I had no plan, and everybody sort of forced me into nursing. It takes you through every aspect of life – from education and career, beauty standards and colourism, to dating and marriage, as well as mental health and therapy, racism and inequality – and of course, your relationship with your family. These are some of the lines you might hear from an Auntie that thinks her role as woman is to be submissive and not fight for equality.

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The next step was making sure the voice cast — including Sandra Oh and Ho-Wai Ching as Mei’s mother and grandmother — were comfortable with the poem and with making it sound like something ancient the family had passed down for centuries. I went to uni and did special-effects makeup, and for them, it was still way outside of the comfort zone, but I'm really stubborn and adamant, and I like to get my way so I guess they just got on board with it.

is packed full of advice to help you handle our culture, be yourself, live your best life, and, of course, deal with the Aunties. I wanted to speak about certain things that would annoy me or things that I would get into a debate with my dad about at home.