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How assimilation creates generational loss

I feel guilty for not speaking my grandparents' language even though they deliberately didn't teach it to their children to help them assimilate.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intentional cultural abandonment for survival purposes can create unexpected grief in later generations.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Historical grief — intergenerational mourning?”

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