Unless, of course, your ancestry is the same country for the last three hundred or more years, in which case you are where you live, and probably (though not necessarily) feel bored about it.

What I mean is that if you were chucked into a new country when you were young (like me), it is likely your current self in every conceivable manner aside from physiological traits related to your race will be different than if you had never moved.

I thought about this when I was wandering around hong kong looking at the kids -- the kids who just grow their hair long and call it a hairstyle, the women with the most bizarre hairstyle? The unflattering clothes, the rampant UK look..it's all different than Canada.

Looking at myself, I would've been completely different -- I wouldn't have had the influence of muscular men instead of just playing sports, so I would be built differently -- I'd imagine I would either be skinnier or tremendously fat from overeating. I would have different values, and definitely would probably be three times the "nice guy" I was before, with no change in sight. I'd want to get married, not see anything wrong in the sacrament, and probably still be Catholic. I'd probably slouch or whatever it is the posture men typically have here (very few people stand straight...or they don't have a chest and I can't tell?), I would probably be somewhat xenophobic, speak significantly less english, be Cantonese fluent and literate in Chinese, and might even speak some Mandarin.

My teeth would be dirty though. I can't figure that out. Also I developed an overbite during my youth -- I wonder if my parents could've afforded orthodontry?

I wonder if I would've been smarter?

You see, moving to Canada, forgetting Cantonese, being Chinese illiterate...that's all I've lost. Staying in Hong Kong..I wouldn't be PG. Everything that is 'PG' -- that's all a biproduct of Canadian freedom.

Does this apply to you? What would you be like if you hadn't moved to whatever country you live in now? And if your ancestry has been stuck in the same country for generations and there's no moving away for you, how do you feel about your culture?

There's another topic I want to start about the sudden decline of expressive racism within the last twenty years (it helps that I'm older than most of you kids -- I've been through more history...it's all pokemon and pop culture and invisible feminism for you within the last ten years)...but that's off topic and fit for another day.

Go!