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How to mediate between your child's dreams and your parents' immigrant fears

My daughter wants to study art but my parents keep saying we didn't come to this country so she could be poor like an artist and the fighting is tearing our family apart.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A parent stands between their child's creative calling and their family's survival-based understanding of success and security.

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