Satan's Luau

Okay, I was raised culturally as Jpnse ... this despite being of mixed ancestry. There is something else to be said about local culture here.

I think that it is the primary cultural identifier for people born here, even beyond identification with specific cultures. I think that it is this way because local culture has really subsumed all the groups here, and there really isn't that opportunity for genuine expression of ethnic culture ... I wouldn't know it as such, couldn't place it as such, and of course the home country culture wouldn't think that our version of their culture is well, the same, or even remotely similar.

So I think that there is a greater influence of being a part of local culture (perhaps this will change over time as demographics change here).

Here's where my mind turns to slushfloat ... take the same mixed ancestry person raised culturally as Jpnse, send them to a particular school, and all of a sudden ... they are more ETHNICALLY identified or perhaps a better term is culturally identified with something that their blood quantum indicates is a small to miniscule part of their overall ethnic composition ... Actually let me rewind, they are now politically identified with or politicize the fact that they are 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 of something. Does that make sense to someone besides me who finds it odd

I think personally, I accept the fact that I am a number of ethnicities, but honestly I primarily identify with one ... which coincidentally is the one that I am a majority of. I realize that certain ethnicities have cache here and certain ones don't really.

That being said, I cannot personally comprehend placing some part of my background out front ... or politicizing it ... maybe when I wasn't raised that way ... or maybe because I am 1/8 of something that I don't really identify that much with ... certainly not enough for me to go out and politicize it personally, and act as if I were truly one who was ethnically all of that group

Just thinking aloud