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When education creates cultural distance from family

I'm the first person in my family to go to college but the education I'm getting is making me question everything my parents taught me and I feel like I'm betraying them by learning.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intellectual development can inadvertently create unbridgeable gaps between immigrant children and their parents' worldviews.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Immigration & Cultural Transition?”

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