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When cultural dress makes you feel visible and vulnerable

I have lived in this neighborhood for ten years but when I wear traditional clothes to the grocery store people still stare and I oscillate between not caring and feeling completely exposed.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between expressing authentic identity and managing the social consequences of being visibly different.

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