Salvis Unidos Introduction

Published: July 21, 2019, 9:41 p.m.

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Hello and welcome to Salvis Unidos Podcast!

Let\\u2019s go back in time real quick. It\\u2019s the mid to late 90s. Not everyone owns a computer. The world wide web is not yet widely accessible. Smart phones? Forget about it. Your best chance of learning about where you came from is the stories your parents tell you.

Maybe you\\u2019ve never been to El Salvador or tasted the food. You\\u2019ve never smelled the tropical air or heard the se\\xf1oras in the local mercado. Maybe you have and you miss the mango verde y minutas.

But you don\\u2019t live in El Salvador. You don\\u2019t quite fit in to the culture here, you\\u2019re not quite accepted by your primos over there. Ni de aqui ni de alla. You\\u2019re a child, teenager, or young adult trying to stay connected to where you came from and hoping to be accepted at the same time.

Those years left a lot of Salvadorans feeling disconnected from their own culture. It was isolating . . . but we were not alone.

I\\u2019m your host Carlos, a Salvadoran-American born in El Salvador and living in New York.

Join me on this journey to discover what the Salvadoran experience looks like outside El Salvador and what it means to be Salvadoran in a globalized world.

Walk with me as we work to unite Salvadorans of all backgrounds, locations, and languages through stories from our shared experience and heritage.

Tune in and we\\u2019ll discover how our diversity will shape the future of our culture.

We\\u2019re not alone. Salvadore\\xf1os. Salvis Undios. Into the future.

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