Choosing Belonging #Diversity Saturday

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Belonging is when you’re welcomed as you are—where difference doesn’t disqualify you. Assimilation is when the welcome comes with conditions. It can look inviting on the surface, yet still cost you something essential. A good gut-check is simple: if acceptance requires you to edit yourself into something more “palatable,” that isn’t belonging—it’s compliance.

What we often lose to “fit in”:

Voice: you edit your tone, opinions, language—or choose to say nothing.

Culture: food, hair, beliefs, humor, rhythms—made “acceptable.”

Truth: you choose harmony over honesty.

Complexity: you become a simplified version people can digest.

Boundaries: you over-give to earn your place.

Joy: you trade spontaneity for “correctness.”

Identity: you start hiding where you came from, who you are, what you believe, what matters.

Belonging feels like a long exhale; assimilation feels like performing. Belonging expands you; assimilation shrinks you.

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