I don’t want to generalize this comment to the whole of the USA, but there is an awkward cultural pressure; in the USA we have to always fit an ethical framework— idk why my background matters so much when I talk to people, but it does? It’s hard to balance my own roots and the person I am trying to be, which is so far from my upbringing at this point. When a family moves, they want to adapt and fit in the culture they’re moving into, but then no one is ever satisfied: people from their culture will say they’re washing away our background, and the locals will always pick on them over the things they don’t know about their culture yet.
I'm not Latina, but as a first-gen American who can't speak her parent's mother-tongue this conversation is so important!
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I don’t want to generalize this comment to the whole of the USA, but there is an awkward cultural pressure; in the USA we have to always fit an ethical framework— idk why my background matters so much when I talk to people, but it does? It’s hard to balance my own roots and the person I am trying to be, which is so far from my upbringing at this point. When a family moves, they want to adapt and fit in the culture they’re moving into, but then no one is ever satisfied: people from their culture will say they’re washing away our background, and the locals will always pick on them over the things they don’t know about their culture yet.