7:00pm CBC TV
Friday, August 12, 2005
I met Jeff at the Vancouver Public Library's Japanese Canadian Cultural Fair. He and his girlfriend are delightful. He is an animator. "What Are You Anyways?" tells the story of growing up with parents of different ethnicitis (Japanese & British) in a small Canadian town (Kelowna)
Jeff's father is Scottish-German-British-Canadian and his Mom is Japanese-Canadian
When Jeff's parents blended their DNA together to create a baby....
Jeff became a hybrid of Japanese-German-Scottish-Brittish DNA... and started down the road of cultural misidentification and finding out who and what he really was!
Jeff Chiba Stearns and real life girlfriend Jenni Kato both grew up in Kelowna BC, and now proudly embrace and promote their half-Japanese cultural identity - photo Todd Wong
Check Jeff's website: www.meditatingbunny.com
