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In 1981, at the age of five, I emigrated from Wroclaw, Poland to the United States of America. I was fortunate to have grown up minutes from one of the most culturally and socially diversified cities in the world, New York City. It is there that I was exposed to many different cultures and it was there where I learned to appreciate and understand the human experience. It motivated me to more seriously consider my own identity and consciously balance my own two cultures. After extensive research and careful consideration, I decided on the Cultural Anthropology-Citizen Sustainability program because I found it to be exceptionally well suited for my personal academic growth and my unwavering passion to better understand and appreciate the
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