038 - Say No to Toxic Asian Body Image and Diet Culture
Proudly Asian
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Is This a Friendly Way to Greet People in Hong Kong?
The way Hong Kongers greet each other is by saying the other person has gained weight. The first time you ever hear it or in the context of someone who has experienced body image struggles, eating related struggles, it can feel like an attack. I've started to really see that perhaps there's something to do with the ways that we understand language and what it represents for each person. For our family members and for the grandmothers and people in the previous generation, I recognize that they don't have the concept of diet culture to even begin from. And a lot of times they will express this purely out of this is the only language available that they have to express care.
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