What's up, Besties? Welcome back to another episode of Network in Chill with me, your

host Vivian2, aka your rich BFF and your favorite Wall Street girly. So today we are going

to talk about my parents. Sort of. We're going to talk about how their immigrant experience

shaped their relationship with money, what positive financial values they gave and instilled

into me and also some of the deep-seated financial traumas I have because of who my parents

are. And this is going to be a very vulnerable episode. So even if you can't directly relate

to being a first gen daughter to Chinese immigrant parents, I do hope it helps you do a little

introspection and soul searching on your relationship with money, your parents and

why you think about finances the way you do today.

So I got to start with the backstory. My family is from Shanghai, China and my mom is

currently in her early 60s and my dad's in his later 60s. And to put it lightly, they

had a fucked up relationship with money long before I came into the picture, long before

I even was just like a glimmer of an idea in their eye. And that's largely because they

grew up during the communist revolution. So quick history lesson for those of us who dozed

off during world history in high school, China used to have a nationalist government that

largely seemed to only care about city business interests and rural landlords, while they

were pretty much ignoring all of the suffering of the common people, the peasants, and when

the communists and nationalists went to war, essentially when the communists would win,

they would acquire landlord land and then hand it over to the common peasants. And as

these peasants got more and more land, they started to feel like, ah, wow, this system

is so much better than the nationalist system which never cared about us. And the leader

of the communist revolution was Mao Zedong. And he focused on winning over the peasants

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