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How education can create political and cultural distance from your origins

I grew up poor and conservative but education changed my worldview, and now I feel disconnected from my family and hometown entirely.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social mobility through education can generate values shifts that create alienation from formative communities and relationships.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Political identity across cultures?”

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