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When legal belonging doesn't ensure social acceptance

My naturalization ceremony was the proudest day of my life but now when people tell me to go back where I came from I wonder if I was naive to think that piece of paper would make me truly American.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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He's discovering that the formal recognition of citizenship doesn't guarantee the informal acceptance he expected and hoped for.

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