How to Talk With Resistant Relatives and Immigrants

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Julissa Natsali Arsera is a Mexican-American journalist and author. She says she tries to approach conversations with resistant relatives from a place of curiosity. Readers can pick up books by revisionist historians that tell the history of their people in this country, she says. "I want more people to go back to Mexico"

When do you feel like you've reached "success"? Julissa Arce is an acclaimed social justice advocate, the author of four books, a former vice president at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, and was named a 2019 Woman of the Year by the City of Los Angeles. But if you ask her, she’s still redefining what success looks like, and if it matters. Julissa immigrated to the United States at 11, and was undocumented for almost 15 years. In her latest book, and in today’s episode, she rejects the idea that assimilation can create belonging and brings success – and asks what we can do instead to reconnect and celebrate all that makes us unique. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts