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When assimilation pressure threatens intergenerational cultural transmission

My kids are embarrassed when I speak our language in public and I worry they will grow up rejecting everything about our culture including our gender concepts.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Children's desire to fit into dominant culture can sever connections to ancestral wisdom about identity and belonging.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Pacific gender diversity?”

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