Re: "Whiteness" Re: Obseneties

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

> Actually, I *have* seen Asian-people-brought-up-partly-in-parents'-Asian-
> culture-and-partly-in-American-culture identify themselves as
> "Asian-Americans," not as a color thing, but as a cultural thing.  Many
> people with Asian parents and American citizenship who are my age have
> this cultural clash problem; we deal with it all the time and are sort of
> caught in a neither-fish-nor-fowl situation.  I don't know that the term
> is all that "accurate," but as a cultural identification doubtless some
> people find it helpful.
Interesting.  I've never seen that usage.  My friends in that situation
usually don't refer to themselves with any kind of label whatsoever.  They
know they don't fit either mold, and don't try to make a new one to
classify themselves in.

Marcus