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“Baba’s America…Was a co-worker who said wasn't it so hurtful to be asked where are you really from, and feeling he had no choice but to agree when he felt he truly wouldn't mind, not even after decades of living in America, that he would always like the opening to speak about his city.
The pride of having immigrated was also, in truth, the wound. Didn't they understand that?”
— Dec 28, 2025 06:18AM
The pride of having immigrated was also, in truth, the wound. Didn't they understand that?”
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“The needs of others were always smaller than the needs of one's own child. Perhaps it was the strange distortion of the crisis, or perhaps it was simply human nature, that the pain of others was never as acute or compelling as one's own pain.”
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