Japanese organizing consultant, author, and television show host
Recorded · The Guardian · 2022
Housewife and mother of three, which I am now.
Life experience & transition
Building a life in a new country
What migration teaches about language, work, belonging, home, recognition, and helping the next arrival.
12 questions, 1 answer written here by 1 member, and 663 quoted from what public figures said elsewhere, each with its source. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.
Worth reading
As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?
British actress
Recorded · The Guardian · 2022
My mother says I had a plan to be a farmer’s wife and a violinist, going to concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in my tractor.
British actor
Recorded · The Guardian · 2017
To be able to play the piano like Artur Schnabel.
Every question in this questionnaire
- What did you have to unlearn and relearn when building a life in a new country or culture? —
- As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself? 197
- What makes a place feel like home to you now? —
- What became easier or harder to express when you began living in another language or dialect? —
- Which ability travelled with you but was hardest for other people to recognise? —
- When did you last change your mind about something important? 28
- When did you first feel that you belonged, and what made that moment possible? —
- What line from a parent, teacher, or mentor do you still repeat to yourself? 23
- What lesson has mattered most in your life? 138
- Which quality in your friends matters most to you? 65
- What would you give somebody arriving now that nobody could give you when you arrived? —
- How would you want people to remember you? 213
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Members with enough answers in this questionnaire to be worth arriving at — listed A–Z, not ranked by count.
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1 answer Bay Area, US
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