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My skin turned red under the Here in Issue 2, many contributors traverse the complexities of We are immersed in so many Goan sun. My heart felt heavy ALICIA D'ARCY SHARON WONG DOMINIC GIANNINI LEO TSAO "culture" in their works: the death MANAGING EDITOR different cultures constantly. when we left. of the Roundhouse, being Asian- Cultures shape our experiences Where are you from? I'm still processing India, whilst Australian, the politics of street Culture is the thing you imbibe Culture shock. I think that’s the If you took a magical x-ray lens of the world and how we move Australia. BRITTNEY RIGBY readapting to Sydney. Singlet tops/ art and veganism and comedy when you go overseas and eat only way to describe bringing your and peered into my second- through it. Cultures impact our No. Where are you really from? saris. White bread/naan. Coke/ and political correctness and another country’s food, watch new Australian girlfriend over to generation Asian-Australian, privilege, identities, access and I guess my parents migrated masala chai. Tap water/bottled Macedonia's struggle and what it their sport or marvel at their your wog household. Nothing can trans, queer, creative body, you’d understanding. They contribute from China. But I’m Australian. water only. Soft serve/jalebis. all means. There's poetry and art buildings. Culture is also the thing quite prepare a petite Australian see a multi-coloured kaleidoscope to structural inequalities and Sort of. And Chinese. Sort of. Eating cow/worshipping them. and stories of travel and lessons on that shapes our default mode of for the nuances of the Italian of particles from a myriad of systemic change. Culture matters. Do you always use chopsticks? , bookshops and Mughal miniature interacting with others in any lifestyle where food is made different cultures, some violently But I know, as an Anglo- Sometimes. It’s convenient. clashing, some gently fusing, and I recently returned from a paintings. given social environment. We are fresh and everything is recyclable. Australian, that in a time Do you like going and having a some just co-existing, swirling and trip to India, which was the all individual islands of thought How can she possibly accept that of persisting whiteness, my We hope you enjoy it all. We VB at a local barbie? dancing with each other. biggest culture shock I have moving throughout this world, a hessian sack can double up as interpretation of “culture” is hope you're nestled back into life Ummm probably not. I love ever experienced. Everything and yet we are so much more than an old Italian man’s belt when her framed by white privilege. I cannot at UNSW. We hope these pages dumplings and noodles? Like many others in my was different, in every way: the the walls of our own minds: we are sauce comes from a bottle and the claim to understand the lived prompt you to take a moment to How will your parents react to you demographic, these cultural people, food, languages, religions, social and we connect, and culture fruit isn’t from the garden? experiences of people still exposed think about the last time a place or liking girls? clashes are such a large part of our histories, cities, landscapes, road is inherently a part of this. to casual racism and embedded musician or artwork or experience They don’t believe in bisexuality. la mia casa è la tua casa … now everyday experiences and identity. rules. There were rickshaws, tuk discrimination. I have never cracked your heart open. We hope Cultures can be a source of Your parents must be super pull up a shovel and help nonno Growing up and traversing this tuks, Bollywood dancing, constant been abused, disenfranchised or you allow those moments to build comfort and can provide a sense conservative. Very Chinese. dig up these artichokes because no world, especially in the current horns, cacophony, colour, chaos, underrepresented because of the and build, until they becomes of belonging, for example the Well it’s not a simply Chinese one’s shy in an Italian household. social/political/cultural climate calm, curry for breakfast. colour of my skin. I know that, skyscrapers in cities of your best cultures within our families thing though. can be quite tough. This issue is all about culture, and Throwing yourself in the deep end in the same way the patriarchy memories. Until next time. and close friendship circles. But you’re probably heaps good at tbh, apart from my inability to However it’s kinda cool to think of a new cultural experience can disadvantages and suppresses However, interrogating the maths. wear shoes that aren’t thongs and about the fact that we’re basically be the most difficult, but most me, my people continue to type of cultures we want to Not really, I love studying my special ability to appreciate the people of the future, bringing rewarding, thing you do. And disadvantage and suppress see around us is also necessary. history and literature. I love beer from a can and wine from a bit of spice into the under- being in a foreign place can be as others. We committed genocide Cultures can be toxic, whether poetry and reading fantasy a bag, I dunno too much about seasoned, bland af world of the much a physical immersion as it against the oldest culture in the that be rape culture (or just the novels. what you Australians do for fun, white folks. is a mental one. It took days for world upon our invasion on 26 broader culture of patriarchy), or Do you speak Chinese? so imma leave it to the experts. my body to adjust to the cuisine, January. We took children away the changing Australian culture Well, the national language from their mothers. We allow which is becoming bizarrely and and days to recover from jet lag is Mandarin but I also speak However, I do know Australian people to sit like prisoners in problematically more and more upon my return. I twisted my Cantonese. My vocabulary and music culture, so if you like live offshore detention centres. We patriotic and exclusive. knee (which was reconstructed grammatical understanding of music and sweaty singers, hit up elected a racist, Islamophobic, the languages aren’t as great as five years ago) hiking part of Hence, this issue is a challenge to the Facebook page for this issue’s misogynistic, unqualified white my English though. I can’t read the Silk Road in Jaipur. My that. With arms open wide, we Spotlight On bands, including man as the leader of the free or write Chinese very well. nose ran and throat burned as embrace the best that culture has Mosquito Coast and Dorsal Fins, world. We populate TV screens But it must be super easy we navigated the largest Asian to bring to us, and turn our cheek who are totally jamming. and websites and stages, while travelling to China! spice markets in Delhi.