My partner and I are both immigrants from different countries and we're trying to figure out how to raise our daughter with pieces of both our cultures, but every choice feels like we're choosing one heritage over the other. We keep having these circular conversations about language, traditions, even what to call ourselves as a family, and I can feel us both getting frustrated in different ways.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are discovering that creating a shared cultural identity requires negotiating competing loyalties and the weight of what gets preserved versus what gets lost.
“Where Are You with The hyphenated identity and belonging?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.