They do not see that I straddle two cultures, nor that I feel displaced in the only country I know. I identify with Americans, but Americans do not identify with me. I've never known what it's like to belong to a community-neither one at large,...
They do not see that I straddle two cultures, nor that I feel displaced in the only country I know. I identify with Americans, but Americans do not identify with me. I've never known what it's like to belong to a community-neither one at large, nor of an extended family.
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"Displaced" is a wrong word. You want "out of place". An extended family is not a community.
- "Displaced" is a wrong word.
- You want "out of place".
- An extended family is not a community.
- A community is one thing, and a family is another.
- And anyway, how does your enforced isolation prevent your belonging to a family?
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"Displaced" is a wrong word. You want "out of place". An extended family is not a community. A community is one thing, and a family is another. And anyway, how does your enforced isolation prevent your belonging to a family? It doesn't make sense. The hyphen is wrong. You wanted an em dash, but a comma would have been correct. There are over 300 million Americans in 50 states and countless cul
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