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Scenario

Why upward mobility creates family distance

I am the first person in my family to go to college and I feel guilty for wanting things my parents never had and cannot understand.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Educational advancement can create cultural distance from family origin that transforms achievement into a form of betrayal and success into isolation.

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