Vaguely related: in my gender & sexuality studies class, one of the things that got brought up in one of the essays we read was that non-Caucasian-Americans don't identify themselves as Americans. My class is full of Caucasians (like 24 out of thirty or so), and when asked, most of them said that they don't identify very strongly as American -- they'll identify with their state, or their hometown, etc. But I identify, more than anything else, as an American, and I was trying to figure out why, and then I remembered. When I was younger, in elementary or middle school, my mother used to tell me that I wasn't Japanese-American because both my parents aren't Japanese. "You're not Japanese-American," she say. "You're American." And to this day, I'll think of myself as American more than I do Japanese-American. (And then I have issues about not having ethnicity-related issues, but that's something else. And now I have cultural appropriation issues, too.)

Er. Not to derail or anything.

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