Have you reconnected with your heritage?⁠

Not every generation embraces culture in the same way. 

Sometimes, the world and the times shape how culture is expressed and handed down. 

Luckily, despite politics and assimilation in past generations, Jessica Pioli has a second to add Italian culture back into her balancing. Embracing it fully, regardless of how much or little was emphasized in her childhood. 

What made her want to reconnect?

After growing up in the UK, she lived in Russia, Germany and Italy. Then made her way back to the UK and found her perfect counterpart. Jessica Pioli is here to tell us her story about rediscovering her Italian roots and the balancing she now has with her Italian born husband. How does she balance her perspective of culture with her husband’s experience of it?

It is encouraging to hear from Jess’s story that reconnecting is possible. Seeing that we all have a chance to learn about our past and have access to more options for the values we embrace and the ways we want to live. Jess added to her balancing. Will you?

Connections to other episodes

In Episode 3, I talked to a new DAD who hopes to give his multicultural son opportunities to connect to his heritage.

Then in Episode 5, a third culture KID, now adult, reflected on what aspects of culture her family connected to between their different worlds.