Follow the adventures of the Super Nip as filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns explores his cultural backgrounds growing up a mix of Japanese and Caucasian in a small white-bread Canadian city. This short classically animated film looks at particular periods in Jeff’s life where he battled with finding an identity being a half minority - from his childhood origins to the epic showdown against the monster truck drivin’ redneck crew. “What Are You Anyways?” is a humorous yet serious story of struggle and love and finding one’s identity through the trials and tribulations of growing up.
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I could really identify with a lot of the things you felt growing up. I am full jamaican but was raisesd in a mainly caucaisin/ native canadian city( really a town of 40,000). I would occaisionally be treated different but I always said I was Canadian, not wanting to recognize my Jamaican side because of what I was always taught .
I too have never wanted to date within my race and I never understood why. I tried to explain to friends that it was lkie kissing my Dad or brothers... no one ever got it! I always hated answerring the stupid questions about "body types" and appendiges as well!!! lol
It was very refreshing to see that you were able to embrace those aspects of who you REALLY are and found peace and love!!
Good luck in all your endeavors! I will be a fan for life!
Great film! Really enjoyed it! Being hapa (Half Korean and Half Caucasian) I really identified with a lot of the experiences you had. Looking forward to more of your films!
Being a Hapa myself, there was so much I identified with in this film. I had the same experience when I dated an Asian girl--I felt like I was kissing my mother. And in my black and white high school yearbook photo, I definitely look Latino.
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by Cheap Chanel
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 03:40
Effecting real change is
by Nancy Alcorn
Thu, 12/08/2011 - 11:26
Effecting real change is never easy, but in the areas of government efficiency and transparency, some are starting to succeed with hard work and the help of social technologies.
I could really identify with
by Carol
Sun, 06/12/2011 - 23:10
I could really identify with a lot of the things you felt growing up. I am full jamaican but was raisesd in a mainly caucaisin/ native canadian city( really a town of 40,000). I would occaisionally be treated different but I always said I was Canadian, not wanting to recognize my Jamaican side because of what I was always taught .
I too have never wanted to date within my race and I never understood why. I tried to explain to friends that it was lkie kissing my Dad or brothers... no one ever got it! I always hated answerring the stupid questions about "body types" and appendiges as well!!! lol
It was very refreshing to see that you were able to embrace those aspects of who you REALLY are and found peace and love!!
Good luck in all your endeavors! I will be a fan for life!
Awesome
by David Schmelzinger
Thu, 04/07/2011 - 04:08
Great film! Really enjoyed it! Being hapa (Half Korean and Half Caucasian) I really identified with a lot of the experiences you had. Looking forward to more of your films!
Excellent
by Robert Carter
Wed, 09/08/2010 - 21:57
Being a Hapa myself, there was so much I identified with in this film. I had the same experience when I dated an Asian girl--I felt like I was kissing my mother. And in my black and white high school yearbook photo, I definitely look Latino.
I really enjoyed this
by Waylon
Tue, 08/18/2009 - 11:22
I really enjoyed this video. Great work.
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