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When education creates distance from your family

I'm the first person in my family to go to college and now I use words they don't understand and have opinions they find threatening, and I feel like I'm losing my roots to become someone they can't love.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

She's experiencing the painful tension between intellectual growth and cultural belonging, where self-development feels like betrayal.

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