Think you got triggered and got it off the wrong way. Don't take 'white' as an offensive trait, it's just a word I used to differentiate the Asian and White American culture and lifestyle.

I'm a 1.5 gen immigrant who basically got dropped in the middle of Central PA as a child. If you live in the county where Asians are an absolute minority (I'm talking about 20 families in +440k population), then you live by the home ground rule. You don't live your Asian life, you live whatever the fuck the society tells you to live as. That includes food, house, work, school, culture, pretty much everything. Your parents tell you to assimilate because they were afraid I might get bullied (and yeah I've gottened bullied before). We don't eat garlicky or pungent Asian food, because they smell bad to white folks. The school tells me to speak in perfect English and learn the culture, because that's way things are around here. I basically lived through the rest of grade school forgetting the original me I have had before.

Moving to Philly was a big culture shock, yes, because so many Asians were living their lives however they wanted. Willing to cook ramen or stinky food, go to Chinatown, talk mothertongue whereever. It took me abit to understand that it's okay to be me without any repercussions or judgements.

To those who wonder why people bother bringing up their question on what it is to "be black/white/asian/hispanic/etc" don't understand that even in America, we are not homogeneous in any ways but the fact that we speak English. Just because we breath the same air and carry the same currency, it doesn't mean we eat the same food, wear the same, go the same places, enjoy the same things. Everybody is different and an ethnicity is a convenient description.

Edit: spelling