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How success gets coded as cultural abandonment

My mom is proud of my job but also worried that I am becoming too white and forgetting where I came from.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

When achievement is racialized as assimilation, personal growth becomes synonymous with cultural betrayal.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with First-generation identity?”

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