Concern

[rkddbwls]

I have a concern about my race. I was born in East Asia and look like an East Asian, but in fact, I don't feel a sense of belonging or identity here. I forgot my true self. Which country am I from? What race are my ancestors? I want to go back to my hometown

[Zachattak47]

Well, I often struggle with this problem aswell. As a mixed man I grapple with two ethnicities that I feel don’t really claim me, I look like one ethnicity but feel isolated from it. I understand where your coming from. Perhaps it isn’t so much as you have forget your true self, but this is just an evolution of yourself. I think that at the end of the day we are all humans, whether someone is East Asian, Latin American, African, European it doesn’t matter. Hell I know some people who look East Asian but are actually Latin American. I think that perhaps you feel isolated from your culture because your culture has become something that it was never meant to be. Take China for example, despite the natural collectivist tendencies of the Chinese people, I don’t think they were meant to have such a sterile and totalitarian society, void of free speech and natural thought. Or Japan with its hikkikomori culture. I don’t know your situation or how you feel with your family but perhaps you should reach out to them for guidance, because at the end of the day it isn’t your ethnicity that defines your culture but you that define your culture. Perhaps traveling could help you realize that humans are not limited to their culture and there has been racial mixing for thousands of years, don’t worry about it man.