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When Mobility Creates Cultural Distance From Your Family

My immigrant parents sacrificed everything so I could be professional class but now I speak their language less and understand their struggles differently.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic advancement can inadvertently create cultural and linguistic barriers with the family who made it possible.

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