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Why upward mobility can feel like identity theft

Everyone says I should be proud of being a self-made success but I feel like I am pretending to be someone else every day.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Class transition often requires adopting foreign cultural codes that can feel inauthentic to core self.

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