Culture Clash
Documentary Features
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57m
CULTURE CLASH, is a feature documentary, filled with riveting interviews of second-generation Caribbean immigrants and the challenges they face in holding to their family heritage while embracing American culture. One of the challenges children of immigrants face in America is translating for their parents and having to grow up too soon.
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