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When you're caught between family and medical systems

I translate for my mom at every doctor's appointment and yesterday they asked me to explain why she won't take antidepressants and I don't know how to bridge that gap.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cultural brokering places impossible responsibility on children to translate not just language but entire worldviews between incompatible systems.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Diaspora identity — living between worlds?”

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