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When language loss feels like cultural death

Every time I try to teach my son our language he gets frustrated and switches to English, and I feel like I'm watching our culture die in real time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The voluntary rejection of inherited culture by the next generation compounds the trauma of displacement.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief for lost homeland — diaspora mourning?”

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