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Why upward mobility can feel like betrayal

I'm the first person in my family to go to grad school and I feel like I'm living in two different worlds that will never understand each other.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Educational advancement can create a painful split between inherited community belonging and individual aspiration.

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