Anita Moorjani

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The School of Greatness · The Fear Was Killing Her, Not the Cancer | Anita Moorjani · 6 May 2026 podcast

So, for example, in the community I grew up in, my parents are Indian, but they were immigrants.

We lived in Hong Kong, predominantly a Chinese city.

I went to a British school.

So my peers, my classmates were all British.

And I didn't fit in.

I didn't fit in with the British kids because my parents were instilling the Indian culture in me.

I didn't fit in with Chinese kids because I'm Indian.

But then when I would be with Indian kids, I didn't fit in there either because my first language started to become English and I started to become...

indoctrinated into British culture and British pop culture and British pop music and so I was different I was I was and I was all of these things and none of these things so I was always trying to fit in wherever I was I feel it didn't fit in the other thing was that as I was growing up my parents were trying to groom me for an arranged marriage

I didn't want an arranged marriage because none of my British friends had to go through that.

So I wanted to study.

I wanted to have higher education and get a job and earn my own money and travel the world.

But I wasn't allowed to do any of that because it makes you less desirable to a potential arranged marriage husband.

So women from that time, from my culture or the particular community I grew up in, particularly this happens with immigrants.

They want to hold on to their culture tighter because they're afraid their kids are going to lose their culture.

So...

I grew up in this culture with a lot of gender disparity where a woman's worth is measured by how valuable she is to the men in her community.

So I always had very low self-esteem and was always trying to fit in, was always afraid of displeasing people, particularly my dad.

I knew my dad was disappointed in me from the time I was a little child.

Really?

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