The hyphenated identity — Irish-American, Korean-Australian, British-Pakistani — names a particular form of double belonging that is also, sometimes, a double not-quite-belonging. To be fully claimed by neither the origin culture nor the adopted one is disorienting; to be claimed by both, on good days, is a kind of richness. Learning to inhabit the hyphen with ease rather than anxiety is one of the more rewarding forms of self-acceptance.
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