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Why upward mobility creates identity fragmentation

I am the first in my family to go to college and every achievement feels like I am leaving them behind while every struggle feels like I am proving them right about not belonging in this world.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social advancement can fracture the self when success requires abandoning the very community that shaped one's foundation.

Ideas that help explain it
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