Project of the Skyline College/North San Mateo County Oral History Archives, Skyline College Library
Student project for LSCI 110 – Digital Oral Research Project, Skyline College

Arnold Setiadi

Click here to read to read the research essay, “Bound for Greatness”, by Jonathan Sean Young

Click on the links below to hear audio segments from an April 2005 interview by Jonathan Sean Young with

Arnold Setiadi, who is a 17 year old Badminton Player, training towards his dream of playing in the 2008 Olympics.

Arnold thinking “hey what can I say?”

Table of Contents:
1. Arnold's Introduction
2. Immediate Family

3. Growing up in Indonesia

4. Why the move to the U.S?

5. Missing Home

6. Between two Worlds

7. Discrimination in his Home Land

8. Badminton Star

9. Future Ambitions

Segment 1
Arnold’s Introduction (46 KB)
Arnold introduces himself. He tells us how old he is and where he is going to school.

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Segment 2
His Immediate Family (206 KB)
Arnold gives us insight about his parents and his lost aunt and uncle.

Arnold’s Parents

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Segment 3
Growing up in Indonesia (696 KB)
Here we learn about how life is in Indonesia and some general information. He also remembers many tragedies and misfortunes he saw as a young child.

Arnold, at the age of 10.

Source: Photo of under 14 Nor Cal Winners

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Segment 4
Why the move to the U.S? (155 KB)
Arnold explains how his family got the chance to move to the United States and why.

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Segment 5
Missing home (98 KB)
Arnold tells us about how he misses his family, food, and culture.

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Segment 6
Arnold's Lifestyle changes between two Worlds (308 KB)

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Segment 7
Discrimination in Indonesia against the ethnic Chinese (200 KB)
The natives in Indonesia don’t like the Chinese. Arnold tells us about his family changing their last name because of discrimination. We also learn about some of the terrors of being Chinese in Indonesia.

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Segment 8
Badminton Star (613 KB)
We learn about Arnold’s start in badminton. He tells us about his successes and accomplishments in this sport.

Arnold at Junior Nationals

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Segment 9
Future Ambitions (212 KB)
Arnold tells us about his future goals in life and his career.

Arnold at the Bay Area Junior Open

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last revised: 5-25-05
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
These materials may be used for educational purposes if you inform and credit the author and cite the source as: North San Mateo County Oral History Archives, Skyline College Library. All commercial rights are reserved. To contact the author, or send comments or suggestions, email Eric Brenner at: brenner@smccd.net