Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

Prompted by a long, anti-Muslim and strongly pro-assimilation post by Elizabeth Moon, shweta_narayan wrote about the pressure to assimilate and how it has affected her.

This is hard stuff, but worth reading. It's not everyone's experience, but it's real, and difficult, and seldom seen by those of us who are, at least mostly, part of the dominant culture. Because one of the demands, often, is that people should pretend that assimilation was straightforward.

(I may post about what Moon said later, but Shweta's post is worth reading even if you've never heard of Elizabeth Moon.)