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How family resemblance triggers homeland grief

My nephew was born here and calls himself American but looks exactly like my brother who died in the war we fled from.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Genetic continuity makes visible both the persistence and the rupture of interrupted cultural transmission.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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