Motherland: Manifesto for the Third Culture Kid
“Where are you from?”
“New York.”
“No, I mean where are you REALLY from?”
“Queens, New York?”
“No, I mean, what are you, Indian or Mexican or something?”
If you are an immigrant or the
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