My mom immigrated here when I was little and she's always been proud of how 'American' I became, but now that I'm an adult I'm trying to reconnect with our original culture and she seems almost hurt by it. She keeps saying things like 'I thought you didn't care about that stuff' and I can tell she feels like I'm rejecting the choices she made to help me fit in here.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two generations are discovering that the adaptive strategies that once protected them now create distance, and that healing can feel like betrayal to the person who sacrificed for your belonging.
“Where Are You with The hyphenated identity and belonging?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.