The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories.
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Immigrants are often discussed in terms of a push-and-pull dynamic: something pushes you from home; something else pulls you far away. Opportunities dry up one place and emerge somewhere else, and you follow the promise toward a seemingly better future. Versions of these journeys stretch back hundreds of years in all different directions.
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I’d never be like the poseur in my civics class who started humming “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and then singing the words “And it smells like / teen spirit.”
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It’s fucked up the way it is sometimes.
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Someone began decrying an ideology called “neoliberalism,” which confused me, because I didn’t know what the term meant. I assumed this was just a new and better version of liberalism, which didn’t sound that bad.
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