Multimodal Project- Podcast

Kizan and his friend are doing a podcast to bring awareness to issues like terrorism, genocides, and wars happening around the world, specifically the genocide in Burma. They discuss their own personal experiences as refugees and the importance of helping those affected. They mention organizations like UNHCR, UNICEF, and Medacross that provide support and medical aid. Kizan also talks about the challenges he faced growing up in America, including bullying and language barriers. They relate their experiences to course readings on identity and language. Hello guys, my name is Kizan Guron, and today I have my friend here with me, Sir, and today we'll be doing a podcast today about my multi-modal project with that values, purpose, audience and context, and for today's purpose is to bring awareness to what's happening around the world such as terrorism, genocides and wars going around, and to be specific, we're going to talk about the genocide that's happening in Burma, and we'll also give you guys examples and ways to help out in terms of signing petitions or even donating if you can, and we'll also show you how to do all that, but before doing that, we'll get to why that's happening with my friend explaining, yes, I'm here, so can you tell us about your experience there, my experience in Burma, it wasn't the best experience at all, one time, so my experience in Burma was that I was a child, and I remember that my mom, I was, my mom was carrying me from her back, and I just heard like gunshots from everywhere, really, like explosions and gunshots, and then like my mom was like panicking, she was like trying to find cover, and all this, I saw it, but I vaguely forget about it, because it was a sorrowful memory to remember, but my mom told me that I, after the firing, she went into the forest, and that's where it started to quiet down, and yeah, that's what my memories of Burma was, so with that being said, I'm trying to bring awareness to things like this happening around the world, especially in Burma, and my intended audience is students like ourselves, that can access the internet and use it by going to change.com, which is a website where you can sign petitions, and you can also donate from websites like UNHCR, which stands for United Nations High Commissioners for Refugees, and you could also do it from UNICEF or like from people's actual like donation pages that already live there, because there's people that are that write news, that are news reporter in the front lines, and if you donate to them, it'll go directly to the cause of it, and I wanted to say that I had a relatable experience too, from my parents being from Bhutan, they were kicked out from there for ethnic cleansing as well, just like what's happening in Burma, and because of that, we had to move to Nepal, and we were refugees in Nepal, and it was pretty similar to what my friend went through, but it was not as bad as like shooting and stuff, it was just like people getting kicked out, but not like actual world war, and with the help of being refugees from Nepal, we were offered to move here by Immigration Service, which is IOM, which stands for International Organization for Migration, and after doing some further research on this topic, I found out that there's a medical group called Medacross, that has been helping people in the front lines, where like they're in danger getting medical treatment, stuff like that, called Medacross, and there's a quote from them that says, since 2016, Medacross has treated more than 18,000 patients living in remote villages in southern Myanmar, which stands for Burma as well, without access to basic health care needs, and I wanted to ask sir, if he had any experience with medical, foreign medical services? Yeah, thank you Kazeem, thanks for passing it on to me, that was a good question, really, I read the Red Cross, well the most thing that ever impacted my duration in Burma was the Red Cross, because like, we didn't, my people, we didn't know what the Red Cross was, because I don't know, we never saw them before, so it just never occurred to us, like there was outside people, but then I, when they came and like, gave us aid, it was like, the first time we saw like a white man, like he was like, whoa, what is this, like, it's like, it's crazy, like we never seen, we just thought that we were so isolated from the world, that we just never know, people like them would help us, and yeah, so the Red Cross really helped us out, really balanced us out, they really, the Red Cross literally give us a ID, medical, medical history, and then they give us like, pills, any type of medical need that we need, for me, I got sick one time, and thankfully there was a Red Cross at the village that, at the refugee village that I stayed in, and I was, and I'm very thankful for the Red Cross for helping me, because if they didn't, then I wouldn't be here, talking with my friend Kazim right now, and going back to you, Kazim. Well, yes, so I had a similar experience with that, by like, seeing like, a white man for the first time, or like, any other race, so we saw like a, like a black man, in our village, and I don't know, maybe it's because like, nobody ever saw a black man before, I never saw a black man too, and everybody was like, kind of shocked, and that made me like, think about how America would actually be like, if we came here, and I think, with having the opportunity to come here, I think it made us a better person, in terms of, in terms of being like, open about everything, like you and me, we have a similar background too, you, you came from Nepal, and I came from Thailand, which is bordering Burma, now Burma, yeah. Yeah, and I wanted to explain why I chose to do this, like this, do tell, do tell, option for the Creative Love Productions Lab, and I picked this podcast, because, and why I'm doing this, is because I feel like, there's not enough awareness about things like this, especially in Burma, because I read a lot about it, and there's research done, and the reporters, like Dr., I forgot his name, but he said that not a lot of people talk about it, even though it's like, an important issue, just like, I saw it on social media platforms, where it said, China had, like, the Holocaust, yes, camps, for Muslims, yeah, and I was really sad to see, because, yeah, history repeating itself, yeah, it's just like that coup, that really happened in, in Burma, they really, they really don't like other people, except for their ethnicity, it's like, it's kind of twisted, but that's just how the dictatorship worked there. So, can you tell me how Korean people got to Burma? Um, um, the origin of my people, is really, we were descended from Mongolians, um, that's, well, my grandma told me that she was a mix of Indian and Mongolian, and then her parents came from those parts, and then she dwindled down to, because we were, because they said they were in China, but then, like, the Chinese, they didn't really like, uh, other people, except for their own kind, so then they pushed us down, always, pushed us down more south, and then it came to be, um, Myanmar, and now, Burma, so, uh, yeah, so, I said the origin of my people, we are, we are, like, descended from Mongolians, I'll say, that's from the origin of Koreans. So, also, as, why I chose to do this, was to relate to my friend here, because we had similar paths before, and I also wanted to relate this into one of the course readings we did, which was called Finding My Identity, and that was where, like, a girl got bullied for having monolids, and having, like, small eyes, and I relate to that, because when I was a kid, that happened to us, too, and I wanted to ask you, sir, um, what kind of things that you went through in your childhood, coming to America? Well, when I came to America, um, I, at first, the first state I went to was Massachusetts, and Massachusetts, um, it wasn't really diverse, like, now, uh, back then, it was, like, mostly white people, and when I went to the schools, uh, I was the only one that was darker, and I thought, that was weird, because, like, I thought everybody was gonna look, I mean, not everybody was gonna look like me, but I thought, like, I could not fit in, but nope, I was just brown, or more tannish to the yellow, like a dark tan yellow, and, uh, kids were making fun of my color, because they was, like, you look like mud, you look like, you look like powder, you look like cinnamon, you look like curry powder, I'm like, I'm like, ah, leave, at that time, my, my younger self, like, I couldn't take it, so I just cried, I just cried, I, the teacher, I don't remember them helping me, it was just, every time I had to go to school, I just didn't want to go to school, it was just, like, I, I did not want to experience that again, and, but, but as I moved from Massachusetts to Nebraska, there was more of my people around me, and then I got more confident, and I gained more confident in myself, so back to you, Chrisley. So, I also wanted to talk about another course reading we did, which was called Mother Tongue, by Amy Chung, and it was basically talking about how her mother's accent was really hard for others to understand, but only she could understand it, and I feel related to that, because my parents have, like, broken English, too, and I feel like I can understand it the best compared to other people, and I feel like that was a harder choice when, like, my parents came to America, and I want to relate that to my purpose as well, which was to help others that migrate here, like, new, new people, with a lot of difficulty in learning the language, talking, stuff like that, on what we can do, and I want to ask her if he had similar experience to that, with his, like, family having broken English, Mother Tongue, like that. Well, I do find some similarities to that. My mom, she begins to understand English, but she does have broken English. She would be saying, like, like, hello, you know, like, she has that accent, that, that, her Asian accent does come up lately, but my dad, when he talks in English, he does not speak, like, he does not speak well, to the, to the point where people understand him. He'd be, the only words that he knows are, like, the repeated word from his bosses or his friends, like, like, my friend, like, he'd be saying that a lot, like, my friend, my friend, and then, um, hello, like, all the, like, generic, generic words, he, he does know how to pronounce, or he does understand what is coming to him, or, like, trying to communicate with him, but, yeah, as far as I know, um, they, I do, I do understand them the most when they're talking in English, because, like, I spend, I spent with them, and, like, I found out, like, the pattern to them, like, the, like, patterns to their talking, and, like, you, you will kind of just pick it up from them, since, like, you'd just be living with them. So, with half of your family being in America, I think the other half is still in Burma, do you know what they go through, and what we can do, as people living here in the US can do to help? Oh, for sure, um, yeah, so, uh, not all my family members are in America, uh, unfortunately, um, some of them are still back in the refugee camps, and they are, but, but, they are doing better, better now than before, because, like, now, uh, from our side, from the US side, uh, my parents, they'd be sending money, any extra money, um, dollars to Thailand, and they are living, I wouldn't say comfortably, but better than they used to, because, like, now, they have, they don't need to worry about, like, the, any type of cost, um, they still have to work for, like, farming and stuff, but, but, like, they got, like, they got enough money for, like, what they want, want, so, like, you know, like, food, um, crops, um, seeds, anything that they want, they can just ask from us, and then we will just send it to them, which is very helpful to us, but we, but at the end of the day, we do want them to live a better life, so it's either they, um, migrate to America, or they either stay there, but we will keep supplying them to their needs. So, from your personal experience, what would you say that me or other students can do to help people in similar situations? Well, if, well, I'm glad that you asked, um, so, on a personal side, I, my parents send money, but then on a outside side, um, if you want to help out people that are just like my family members back in, um, the refugee camp, you can just go to those, um, what is it, those Red Cross, they're really helpful, or any type of, um, donation, global donation to refugee camp, any type, uh, there's one where, um, if you, uh, I forgot what that, that, um, donation was, but if you do this certain amount of stuff, you, uh, donate one pound of rice, or something like that, yeah, so there's so many, um, there's so many, uh, donation organization, charity organization that you can literally just search it up, search up the country, and then search up, um, what can I do in that country, and then it will definitely pop up any type of organization that you want to help out. So, I also wanted to ask about if you knew anything about the, the church in Chin State attacked by the Burmese Army recently? Um, yeah, I have heard about it from my parents, um, my parents, uh, they do keep communicating with, uh, my family members back in, um, Thailand, uh, back in the refugee camp, and back in the refugee camp, um, they were like, yeah, there were attacks from the Burmese Army, the Burmese, um, yeah, dictatorship army, and, um, they, it's not only happening in, like, other smaller indigenous tribe, indigenous, um, ethnicity, but, um, yeah. But, it does happen to Karens, Karenis, Chin, um, so many small indigenous tribes that, that so many people don't know about, but, yeah, um, the, it's very devastating to hear about other parts, other parts of the, uh, of the people, uh, getting affected by the Burmese Army. So, why is the Burmese Army attacking the other ethnic groups that live in the same country as they are? Um, what I know is that, um, I never had a personal beef or issue with the, with any Burmese people, but from what my parents and my, and my grandparents have said is that, um, the Burmese, not the people, but the dictatorship, he doesn't, they, they don't like other people, they don't like other ethnicity, they like their own, um, own people, like, they are the superior race. That is what I am understanding from my parents and grandparents. The only reason why they don't like us is because we do something different, we look different, or our practice of religion is different, and that's it. But I know that the people in Burma, I know they don't agree to all what the dictatorship said, but, like, they can't really do anything because they will be met with force, and I understand that, because it's either you choose your family or you choose to help others, and you would rather help your family than others. So, to wrap up the podcast, I'd like to say thank you for your time. Oh, you, oh, thank you for, thank you for inviting me. Yeah, and I'd like to revisit the, the purpose, audience, and context for this podcast that I was doing for, my Multimodal Project. And for today's podcast, my purpose is to bring awareness to things happening around the world, such as genocide, terrorism, and wars going around the world, just like what's happening in Burma, which is a genocide. And that kind of makes me think about what Hitler did in the past, which is what it seems like, kind of, about how Burmese people think they're a superior race, and they want to get rid of the other people, because they think they're inferior, and they look different. Oh, it's not the Burmese people, it's the Burmese army. Yeah, the Burmese dictatorship, the government, well, the Burmese people, I guess they're fine, and I'd like to explain on what my intended, my intended audience was, which was students like myself, and Sir here, on how we can go to change.org, and just sign up, and sign a petition, which is pretty easy, it'll probably take like a minute or two. And there's also donation links, where it could be done through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or you could do from UNICEF or Red Cross, like Sir mentioned, and I feel like that'd be really helpful for the people that are going through this right now. And the reason I chose to do this specific option for this multi-modal project is to bring awareness, and I chose this because in the past, I did my projects, like the Destroy Logoi, I was doing for, what should we do, like, should we help Palestine, should we stay there, should we, like, leave? Because it seems like Israel is an attacking force, and us helping Israel is just, like, on the media it shows how we're paying for the killings of little kids and children, and all the families that live there, which is pretty sad to say, and that's pretty much it. Do you have anything to say, Sir? Um, I don't. I had a great time talking about this, and I hope that, and I'm happy that we're giving out the awareness, and just do good. Other than that, thank you for listening to our podcast. Thank you. See you. We're going to end the recording.