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When language assimilation creates spiritual disconnection across generations

My children speak perfect English and I am proud and heartbroken at the same time because they cannot understand their grandmother's prayers.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Cultural integration necessitates losses that are simultaneously adaptive and devastating to the continuity of tradition.

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