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When children witness your code-switching strategies

My teenage son asked me why I 'act different' around his white friends' parents and I realized he's been watching me fragment myself his whole life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The next generation inherits both the necessity and the psychological cost of our adaptive behaviors.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Code-switching and double consciousness?”

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