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⌈ Secret Post #1611 ⌋

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OP, I think all of us are a little lost, and hope that there's a special place where we will finally fit in and everything will sort of click into place. But the truth is, that place doesn't exist. I hope you don't idealize Japan too much, because I strongly suspect that Japanese kids are just as confused about what we're doing as the rest of us.

Your secret reminds me of the experience my high school best friend had. Although we grew up in a large and diverse metropolitan area, our own town was pretty small and mostly white. She was only one of a few Asian people in our high school, and as an immigrant herself (she was eight when her family immigrated to the US from China) often felt like she didn't fit in. Her childhood memories were of another country, and although you wouldn't know it unless she told you, English wasn't her first language. She was really really excited to go to (large, prominent) university where the largest ethnic group is Asian-American. She was sure that finally, she would find some people she fit in with, who understood her, and where she wouldn't be so confused about her cultural background. We had long talks about it.

I think it took all of one semester for her fantasy to crash and burn. She came home for winter break declaring that she was no longer Chinese, but Chinese-born American, and all the Chinese people at school could kiss her ass.

A friend of mine had a very similar experience to yours. She was adopted by white Canadian parents, but always felt out of place and dreamed of connecting more with other Asian students. Then went my university, which has an enormous Asian-Canadian population, only to discover that her values were much more in line with traditional European ones and wound up hanging out with the white kids anyway.

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