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How to navigate cultural reconnection across privilege gaps

I am Indigenous and was adopted by a white family and I want to connect with my birth culture but I feel like a fraud because I grew up with privilege they did not have.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your desire for cultural belonging is complicated by guilt about advantages gained through separation from that culture.

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