This was one of the first videos on Teochew Identity I had ever seen on the internet. Other videos I had seen before this one were home videos, how to speak the language or in Teochew. I remember when I first found out about this video, I was ecstatic because a key part of my identity and narrative was finally being talked about on a large social media platform in a professionally made video. However, as I watched this several more times, I can’t help to wonder why aren’t there more videos like this? Teochew people are known to have had migrated to many countries in South East Asia in several large diaspora. My own grandfather migrated from Shantou to Vietnam due to poverty during the communist control in China and many other economic/social factors before fleeing with the rest of the family to the United States during the Vietnam War. As a result of a part of my family strongly identifies as Teochew while the other part identifies more with being Vietnamese.











