Episode Fifteen – Why Cultural Integration Matters

This episode of Ears of East is recorded in conjunction with Gr10 Global Perspectives students as they focus on cultural integration on a global, Singapore and UWCSEA scale as part of their Critical Challenge Project.

Show notes:
Is Singapore’s identity less clear today
With cultural integration people will always need to create others
Cultural tolerance is the key to social harmony
Cultural tolerance and its importance –
Does globalisation mean that we will all become one culture?

Episode Thirteen: Coronavirus – Don’t Feed The Fear

Shownotes:
Asian Teens Are Addressing Coronavirus Racism On TikTok

Xenophobia ‘is a pre-existing condition’. How Harmful Stereotypes and Racism are Spreading Around the Coronavirus

As Coronavirus Spreads, So Does Anti-Chinese Sentiments

‘Made in China’: how Wuhan coronavirus spread anti-Chinese racism like a disease through Asia

With thanks to High School Principal Nick Alchin for his input into this episode.

Episode Twelve: The Vaping Episode

SHOWNOTES

Podcasts
Freakanomics radio – The truth about the vaping crisis
NYT The Daily – The promise and peril of vaping part 1 A mystery in Nebraska
NYT The Daily – The promise and peril of vaping part 2 – The story of JUUL
BBC The Inquiry – Is Vaping Safe
The Guardian Today in Focus – What is the truth about vaping

Reading:
Op-Ed: Let’s call this youth vaping crisis what it is: A Juuling epidemic
Vice: The FDA Declares Teen Juuling an ‘Epidemic’