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When you feel disconnected from your ethnic community's political concerns

Every family gathering turns into a debate about politics in our home country and I was born here so I feel like an outsider to my own people.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Second-generation immigrants can feel alienated from their own cultural community when homeland politics dominate family discourse.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Ethnic identity and heritage?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.