Current Events > Is it normal to have some kind of 'identity crisis' when you're a minority?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Look at me for example.... I'm 100% Asian/Vietnamese and I was born and raised in the US, BUT I'm not 'Asian" enough to be Asian and I'm not "patriotic" enough to be an American.

So what should I be and what should I call myself?

You should consider yourself Asian-American.
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Iodine posted...

You should consider yourself Asian-American.

Am I really one though, considering I'm not strongly identified with either.

Call yourself an attack helicopter, that seems to go over well lately.

dakadakadakadaka
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We all know what the truth is, you're you. good to know you
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I'd say you're American if you were raised there even if you're not patriotic at all

You're a human being, your identity is the person you choose to be via your beliefs and actions, that's it. I'm a minority as well but such labels never carried any significance for me. I'm me, the rest of the world can choose to put labels on me and somehow deem it important, but I know who I am, my identity transcends the color of my skin or the culture o was brought up in.
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you should look into the literature on asian identity or minority identity development models, but yes, this experience is a predicted part of development
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