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When your children's American success requires rejecting your identity

I immigrated from Nigeria and work three jobs to send my kids to good schools but they are embarrassed of my accent and our food and I do not know if their success is worth this rejection.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The price of your child's belonging in their new country can be the denial of your shared origin.

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