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When your child romanticizes the homeland you escaped

My parents sacrificed everything to come here and now my daughter says she wants to go back to the country they fled from to 'connect with her roots' and I feel like I'm losing my mind.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The transmission of memory across generations creates impossible tensions between honoring sacrifice and allowing authentic exploration.

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