“Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”
When you're from an immigrant family, sometimes the best way to find yourself reflected in media is reading a poignant line from literature.
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Like: "For being a foreigner Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy -- a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts."
From Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake.
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Or: "First generation kids, I've always thought, are the personification of déjà vu.”
From this essay by Durga Chew-Bose.
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Or maybe something like "I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America."
From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah.
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