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When Children Reject Traditional Foods for American Culture

My kids only want to eat chicken nuggets and pizza while I grew up on my grandmother's Nigerian food, and I feel like I am failing to pass down something essential.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cultural transmission fails at the dinner table, where convenience and peer acceptance triumph over heritage and family tradition.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Cultural assimilation vs. preservation?”

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