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“There will always be points of sharing as long as people are willing to find points of sharing.”

Knowing Who We Are
Ga Ching Kong

My name is Ga Ching Kong, my dad’s Chinese, and my mom is Irish and English. My dad was born in Hong Kong, he came here in 1961, and my mom was born here but her parents came here as immigrants. I was born in Victoria.

I think where you’re from or where you’re parents are from informs who you are. It wasn’t until I’d spent a lot of time considering my own heritage that I actually could consider other people’s heritage, which is a lot healthier than just going into someone else’s heritage without any concept of your own. A lot of people mistake me for being part Native. I’m tall, I don’t look Chinese, I don’t have the small frame.

I think that there will always be points of sharing as long as people are willing to find points of sharing. There are the mythologies that bring our communities together, and people will find the stories and make the stories as long as we need them. Discrimination’s not really such a positive link. If that’s where it starts it’s not gonna go very far. It would be more interesting to have the links come out of a sense of community knowing who itself is and being interested in knowing who other people are. If we worked together we could do more interesting things, if we worked out of a solid sense of who we were. If we can pull that off without appropriating, I think we could do good things.

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