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Scenario

How to balance cultural pride with protective assimilation

I teach my daughters to be proud of their heritage but I also teach them how to make themselves smaller when they need to stay safe.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Parents must simultaneously nurture identity and teach children to navigate hostility, creating complex psychological burdens.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
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Peri

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