<p>I’m actually lower class, and kind of anti-American. The way you guys put this is a little bigoted/rigid I think, because American is an identity as well. If you don’t feel like you belong to it, or that you truly don’t as your family participates in more than just holidays but actually speaks the language and has relatives in the native country, I don’t think you are in that group of middle-class Americans with no identity in little boxes on the hillside (and they all look just the same).</p>
<p>Your identity is whatever fabrication you create, and people are sheep. I am not defending myself, and I actually don’t feel like I “belong” in any culture. Rather, I reject my family’s culture in many ways- not out of rebellion or disrespect, but because I don’t identify. People choose what they identify with. One can change their accent or appearance and conform elsewhere if they desire to. WantsBrown, I actually have friends with parents like that. I think its a bit strange, but rather than create a tribe, they have this delusion that they are very Native American when they really aren’t, so they participate in this tribe’s activities. So, perhaps some of it is like this, but to group 350 million people in such a stereotype is close-minded bigotry IMO.</p>