2. You feel you are not on their side anymore. You've been accepted. You're on the American side. This is your soil now. It's the same psychology that happens when you're a dorky kid in middle school and suddenly get in with the popular crowd...
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You reject your old, loyal dorky friends (even if you relate to them more) because you don't want to be associated with the shunned, and you don't want to go back to being rejected yourself. It's a type of colonized self hatred that I think every minority deals with.
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It's all very sad. I'm sure I'll get shit for this post, but it's important for our growth that we try to understand each other & ourselves more. This election has certainly made it look like we are truly divided. But I don't think it's that black and white. (Or Blue and Red)
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