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Having access to Western TV was a blessing, but also a curse. You got a vision of the broader world, but you also saw what that world thought about you. Conversations you wished to be part of; stereotypes and false narratives you wanted to correct but couldn't. All you could do was sit, stuck, staring at TV shows documenting your stuckness.