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Understanding how your family's cultural upbringing shaped your own


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I ve learned it s OK to form my own cultural identity, even when it differs from my family s. But it took time.
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One weekend when I was 14, I anxiously sat on the couch with my parents watching TV, waiting for an ad break to ask a question I had been dreading.
But my nerves got the best of me, and my well-rehearsed plea to attend my friend s birthday sleepover turned into word vomit.
Before I could finish, my parents shut it down.
Didn t you see Ashley last week? Will there be alcohol? Drugs? Why do I want to sleepover at someone else s house? Don t you have exams soon? ....

Monique Toohey , Sandi Silva , Coyote Ugly , Migrant Children , மொநீக் டூஹெய் , சாண்டி சில்வா , கொயோட் அசிங்கமான , குடியேறியவர் குழந்தைகள் ,