I would even argue that, for many displaced people, nostalgia is also blended with fear – the fear of uncertainty and of facing the challenges posed by the larger world and the fear of the absence of the clarity and confidence provided by the past. In essence, nostalgia is associated mostly with the experience of a particular type of migrants, namely, exiles.
-Ha Jin
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