Cultural Appropriation
Overthink
The Loss of Meaning in Diaspora
The idea of like, am I acting or being or looking Mexican never emerged when I was a Mexican in Mexico? It's only in the US that I suddenly began to see myself as a Mexican with that cultural marker being somehow much more central to my identity than maybe other markers. As though in Diaspora, we want to hold on to what we would otherwise lose in moving away from our homeland. And so I see that loss of meaning as something that happens precisely when there is movement.
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