World Citizen Storycast

World Citizen Storycast


28: Finding Grandmother

September 21, 2016

Jessica moved from Canada to South Korea and that’s where she met a handsome guy from the Philippines. But her international adventures had only begun, as she and her new husband decided to set off in hopes of uncovering a family mystery. Jessica’s grandmother had been born in Burma and many years later ended up in the UK, but little was known about her life in between, and Jessica shares with us the enticing clues and frustrating disappointments of their trip across India and Myanmar in search of her grandmother’s story. Jessica also entertains us with bits and pieces of her life as a Canadian/Filipino family in Korea, while Marcia and Lisle consider the effect children and good looks can have on bridging cultural barriers, and the challenge of cultural assumptions of wealth that Westerners sometimes face around the world.