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How educational mobility creates complex feelings about family sacrifice

I am the first in my family to go to college and I feel guilty about having opportunities my parents never had while also feeling angry about what they endured.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Individual advancement built on collective struggle generates simultaneous gratitude and rage that defies simple resolution.

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