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Why homeland cultural forms become emotionally unbearable

I haven't been able to listen to traditional music since we left because it makes me cry so hard I can't breathe.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Artistic expressions of cultural identity become too painful to engage with when severed from their originating context.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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