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My interview on ABC News Live regarding the Coronavirus description as the "Chinese Virus" and the racist implications it has on Chinese and Asians worldwide. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56c01ba72b8dde7190c38818/56c0afbb7c65e465b50387b1/5e792f6e30db4c0e01867b25/1585000755862/ Video - My interview on ABC News Live about the "Chinese Virus" description and its racist implications. My interview on ABC News Live regarding the Coronavirus description as the "Chinese Virus" and the racist implications it has on Chinese and Asians worldwide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c01ba72b8dde7190c38818/1587775679209-PO749JL7HW09KP2ISLOC/image-asset.jpeg Video - My Passport to Pain: From Asian Immigrant to American Addict Sam grew up caught between two cultures as a first-generation Chinese immigrant to the United States. In addition, he grew up amidst 3 generations of addictions (gambling, eating issues, workaholism, and sexual secrecy just to name a few). In this presentation, he documents the challenges of immigrant experiences such as cultural shame, assimilation to a new country, and how maladaptive coping mechanisms in the form of addictions and compulsive behaviors can pass from one generation to another. Yet, Sam's own journey of resiliency can give audiences a new understanding of hope, perseverance, and the resources necessary to end the cycle of negative generational patterns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c01ba72b8dde7190c38818/1560742797862-NYIO7KKN0ZNJ0FS8S0QT/image-asset.jpeg Video - Sam Louie Compilation Video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c01ba72b8dde7190c38818/1565633395205-ETDEOQQYLK6XG2YD4BLW/image-asset.jpeg Video - China Global Television Network interview Psychotherapist Sam Louie on parenting styles for Asian millennials. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c01ba72b8dde7190c38818/1584757613965-TQCNO4CHMFK4YIHK82EZ/image-asset.jpeg Video - Coronavirus Racism against Asians When it comes to discussions about what's racist or not, let's not conflate intent with impact. While President Trump's "intent" may have been to stop China's propaganda that the Coronavirus started in the U.S., his labeling it as the "Chinese virus" has racist "impact" which is fueling xenophobia and verbal and physical attacks against Chinese and Asians globally. My interview with ABC News Live on this issue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c01ba72b8dde7190c38818/1584679371598-UZNZD0XPK4826UMN173B/image-asset.jpeg Video - Coronavirus Xenaphobia against Asians My comment on how President Trump’s description of the Coronavirus as the “Chinese virus” fuels xenophobic hatred, fear, and violence against Asians globally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c01ba72b8dde7190c38818/1568242674657-FJV8LISLSWW5MLQRZGTG/image-asset.jpeg Video - Gonzaga University (Sept. 2019) Mental Health Matters interactive workshop touching on mental health, identity, and cultural issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c01ba72b8dde7190c38818/1584677933948-PJQD0V4KID9LQS6TU22S/image-asset.jpeg Video - President Trump's 'Chinese Virus' term for COVID-19 fuels concern, frustration Interview with KOMO TV (Seattle) on how President Trump’s description of the Coronavirus as the “Chinese” virus fuels xenophobia and racist actions against Chinese and Asians world-wide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c01ba72b8dde7190c38818/1554215419070-E8MX2Y7MNO7ZRQ8DVWDW/ORG_DSC04755.jpeg Video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c01ba72b8dde7190c38818/1560816423634-TMNVECM7KUH9WE0IXAN7/image-asset.jpeg Video - Asian shame and suicide interview An interview on the Oxygen channel about the death of Rebecca Zahau and my thoughts on how Asian shame could have been a precursor to her possible suicide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c01ba72b8dde7190c38818/1554215491322-TZM73VODIJMJDVDMOZ31/IMG_2400.JPG Video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c01ba72b8dde7190c38818/1554215613103-OUC5JAO9I3Z8DCA7KX2M/Screen+Shot+2019-04-02+at+7.33.13+AM.png Video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c01ba72b8dde7190c38818/1503500011138-FWHIJWJJ6HLHCKIWHUWS/Screen+Shot+2017-08-23+at+7.53.05+AM.png Video - "Slanted Eyes: The Asian-American Experience" keynote via Spoken Word poetry by Sam Louie University of Vermont keynote as part of the university's 10th annual diversity conference. Sam Louie is a psychotherapist, speaker, author, poet, and Emmy Award-Winning former television journalist who weaves stories about race, culture, and identity into a dynamic presentation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c01ba72b8dde7190c38818/1508084951164-LXP63KLMXYJB1KKIWZ8O/image-asset.jpeg Video - Asian Shame in Switzerland (April 2017) A week-long presentation on the dynamics of Asian Shame was given at YWAM (Youth with a Mission) Headquarters based in Lausanne, Switzerland. More than 20 mainland Chinese came to hear this message (through a translation in Mandarin) and return home with tools to help mitigate cultural shame. The week allowed for lecture, experiential exercises, small group sharing, and a better understanding on trauma, shame, and relational healing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c01ba72b8dde7190c38818/1487831714981-XSIC8BPYTFFXISHZYM0P/image-asset.jpeg Video - Fu Manchu (Spoken Word Poetry) Fu Manchu, a caricature, the Chinese, sinister, popularized in Hollywood, spread to all neighborhoods.   The Chinese came, in the 1840’s, looking for gold, mocked by society, Whites said, “Oh, so sorry!” (Chinese accent)   Built the railroads, treacherous work, The Transcontinental, You should be thankful!   You wouldn’t know it, From your history books, the Chinese denied, A picture beside the finished work.   They worked for low wages, Didn’t even make the front pages, when 50 were killed, Rock Springs Massacre, letting us know, racism was fo’ sho.   Hate became official, Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, driven from the mines, with no where to go, banded together, settled in San Francisco.   Unlike what you think, Chinatowns were started, not intentionally, but out of necessity.   They worked long and hard, risking limb and life, only to hear scorn and taunts, “Get away from us Whites!”   Settled in cities, building Chinese communities, protect themselves physically, preserve themselves culturally.   With a ban on immigration, Chinese families not to be, Either died single, or returned home across the Pacific Sea.   By 1943, Chinese Exclusion Act lifted, By then, Chinese mostly decimated.   Needing more workers, The U.S. agreed, It’s time for more Asians, This time let’s try the Japanese.   They were welcomed to work, Under the broiling sun, picking Pineapples, cutting sugar cane, you call that fun?   Unlike the Chinese, The U.S. was gracious, Letting “picture brides” enter,   Families flourished for the Japanese, quiet, deferential, respect for authority, not much commotion, until the, “Day of Infamy!”   December 7, 1941, Kamikazes came, dropping bomb after bomb, enough to send America to war, whipped into a frenzy, racial hatred restored.   Executive Order 9066, signed by Roosevelt, to be the quick fix.   Send the Japs, child and all, to Internment camps, even in Arkansas.   Round them up, get them there, they’re not to be trusted, with their crew-cut hair.   Interned, betrayed by America, A country they called home, frightened, fearful, and all alone.   To prove their loyalty, men signed up to fight, The 442nd was like the Blacks of Tuskegee, an all Japanese-American Combat Force, helping America win the war.   But back at home, racism endured, Trusting American Asians, still the bigger battle, tensions remained very unsettled.   The Japanese by nature, calm and collected, didn’t say much, moved on and tried to forget it.   Growing up I asked them, “What happened?!”, But no one shared their stories, embarrassed, ashamed, questions deflected, “We don’t want any glory”   But it’s not about glory, It’s about history, If we don’t share it, The cliché says we’re doomed to repeat it.   Eventually, by turn of the century, an official apology, financial reparations, for Japanese racial separations.   Things have come a long way, In racial harmony, But ignorance is not bliss, And we must ask ourselves this, Why it’s so hard to co-exist? 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Is this any different from a traditional Westerner? I would say very much so. Shame is embedded in the Asian way of thinking, behaving, and interacting. If you do not understand the cultural history of shame and its underpinnings, then you will have a hard time understanding the mindset of typical Asians, let alone the stranglehold of shame in their midst. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c01ba72b8dde7190c38818/53fc1ed9-bf10-44e3-9327-f034773932b7/Passport+to+Shame+Social+Media_01.png Books & Resources Sam Louie grew up torn between cultures as part of a first-generation Chinese immigrant family from Hong Kong living in a predominantly African American neighborhood in the United States. He experienced the duality of existence with the tension of two vastly different worldviews, his identity intertwined with the country he lives in and his ancestral ties. What traditions and cultural beliefs get preserved, what gets discarded, and what gets lost in translation? 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