One of my kids has ever since he left
home lived, by choice, where there were few Caucasians and no native
English-speakers. He is now contemplating moving back to where more
folks are multilingual, and recently he noted that one of the stresses
of the past 20 years has been that wherever he's lived he's occasionally
wished for "somebody who thinks like I do" and when queried about that
comment a few months ago, it turns out to be that what he's missing is
the verbal expression of a value system, certain child-rearing practices
he doesn't see where he is/has been, other things that basically to him
say "home", "my people"......
So it seems a natural thing to me to want to be with one's "own kind of
people".
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