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Why Being Bicultural Means Never Being Enough

My Lebanese relatives think I am too Americanized but my American friends think I am too foreign, and I am tired of being not enough of anything for anyone.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Existing between cultures creates constant evaluation from all sides, making belonging conditional on impossible standards of cultural authenticity.

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