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What function does the dash '—' serve in the sentence?
Is the part before the dash representing a shared narrative in the model minority, and the part after the dash is what the author is thinking about it?
"The younger generation allegedly gets all the opportunities the older generation had to suffer for—and therefore must also suffer to maintain what their parents accrued through suffering in an endless cycle."
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Christianity and Hope in Madoka and the Model Minority
In the model minority, the structure forced upon all East Asians by American racism, hope is a silencing force. The younger generation allegedly gets all the opportunities the older generation had to suffer for—and therefore must also suffer to maintain what their parents accrued through suffering in an endless cycle. Have hope: Keep your head down, assimilate, and don’t complain and you will be given the scraps of whiteness, we are told. Should you resist, whatever hope you have will be revoked, and you will be treated as an anathema: the yellow peril, the foreigner.
What function does the dash '—' serve in the sentence?
Is the part before the dash representing a shared narrative in the model minority, and the part after the dash is what the author is thinking about it?
"The younger generation allegedly gets all the opportunities the older generation had to suffer for—and therefore must also suffer to maintain what their parents accrued through suffering in an endless cycle."
-----For context-----
Christianity and Hope in Madoka and the Model Minority
In the model minority, the structure forced upon all East Asians by American racism, hope is a silencing force. The younger generation allegedly gets all the opportunities the older generation had to suffer for—and therefore must also suffer to maintain what their parents accrued through suffering in an endless cycle. Have hope: Keep your head down, assimilate, and don’t complain and you will be given the scraps of whiteness, we are told. Should you resist, whatever hope you have will be revoked, and you will be treated as an anathema: the yellow peril, the foreigner.
Is the part before the dash representing a shared narrative in the model minority, and the part after the dash is what the author is thinking about it?
"The younger generation allegedly gets all the opportunities the older generation had to suffer for—and therefore must also suffer to maintain what their parents accrued through suffering in an endless cycle."
-----For context-----
Christianity and Hope in Madoka and the Model Minority
In the model minority, the structure forced upon all East Asians by American racism, hope is a silencing force. The younger generation allegedly gets all the opportunities the older generation had to suffer for—and therefore must also suffer to maintain what their parents accrued through suffering in an endless cycle. Have hope: Keep your head down, assimilate, and don’t complain and you will be given the scraps of whiteness, we are told. Should you resist, whatever hope you have will be revoked, and you will be treated as an anathema: the yellow peril, the foreigner.
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- Inglês (EUA)
This is technically an incorrect use for this dash. If this was a quote, it means that there was text where that dash is, and the dash takes out part of a quote to shorten it for the reader.
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- Inglês (EUA)
This is technically an incorrect use for this dash. If this was a quote, it means that there was text where that dash is, and the dash takes out part of a quote to shorten it for the reader.
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Thank you!
If it's incorrect, should I read it as just a comma?
Also meaning-wise, am I correct in understanding that this is not a quote but the whole sentence is just talking about what the author experienced within the model minority community?
If it's incorrect, should I read it as just a comma?
Also meaning-wise, am I correct in understanding that this is not a quote but the whole sentence is just talking about what the author experienced within the model minority community?
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