"My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries"
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The country list does quiet work, too. Russia and China signal big, ideologically loaded places in the American imagination; Nicaragua adds a sharper edge, a hint of Cold War aftertaste and U.S. intervention history. Dropping those names without commentary lets the audience supply the stakes. It suggests a childhood where “foreign” wasn’t exoticized so much as normalized, which reads as both enviable and revealing: a reminder that cosmopolitanism is often an inheritance.
As an actress, Dushku is also building credibility with this anecdote. It implies adaptability, cultural curiosity, a comfort with unfamiliar settings - traits that map neatly onto the craft of performance and the industry’s demand for reinvention. Underneath the breezy tone is a subtle positioning move: I didn’t just become worldly; I was raised inside worldliness. That’s biography functioning as brand.
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Dushku, Eliza. (2026, January 16). My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-mother-would-take-groups-of-students-to-87559/
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Dushku, Eliza. "My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-mother-would-take-groups-of-students-to-87559/.
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"My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-mother-would-take-groups-of-students-to-87559/. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
