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When political issues trigger ancestral wounds

I keep getting into fights with people about immigration policy because something in me takes it personally even though my family came here legally generations ago.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Current events can activate inherited emotional responses to historical experiences.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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