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How social mobility creates identity displacement

I'm the first in my family to go to college but I feel like I'm losing my connection to home every time I come back speaking differently and wanting different things.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Systems of advancement often require individuals to abandon their origins, making success inseparable from a form of cultural betrayal.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Fairness — what every civilization concluded?”

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