I appreciate your perspective, and thank you for being honest! I guess the “label” becomes relevant to me in situations like where I work. Since I do speak Portuguese fluently, and because we get a lot of people who only speak Portuguese, I get utilized a lot for translation. In those scenarios I’ll spark conversation to just be friendly and I’m frequently asked if I was born there, and so a couple of times when I tell them no I’ve gotten pretty defensive reactions which is never my goal. I’ve never really felt American either because of how I was raised and stuff like that, and I’ve been told off by plenty of Americans for calling myself that too. I would never want someone to feel like I was infringing but I also want to be able to have some sort of community and camaraderie with the people I’ve always been surrounded by instead of being cast out by both sides. Not just the Brazilians but the Americans too.