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When cultural curiosity feels like emotional labor

My white boyfriend's family keeps asking me to explain my culture's traditions at dinner and I cannot tell if they are genuinely interested or performing diversity.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Being positioned as a cultural ambassador transforms intimate relationships into sites of perpetual translation and performance.

Ideas that help explain it
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