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[garlicbreath]

The authors delineate three different styles of identity adopted by children of immigrants -“ethnic flight” (abandoning their own ethnic group and mimicking the dominant group), “adversarial identities” (constructing identity in opposition to the mainstream culture and its institutions), and “transcultural [bicultural] identities” (developing

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[nama_nala]

sometimes i tell myself it's about time i read the people who are thinking about people like me. and then i read these little excerpts and get overwhelmed, emotionally, at the prospect of having all those words to name the spectrum of experience and interaction in my life.

for some reason, i think there are more than three styles of identity adopted by children of immigrants, and one day i'll sit down and try to name them all without getting distracted. maybe it's the way 'culture' is so flattened in the english language and the desire to say, 'hold up, i don't just mean speaking konglish and knowing how to order at restaurants.' does it get clarified by saying instrumental or expressive culture? just having a go at it for now, for me i need to find a way to say that it's the difference between the consumer of culture and the tour guide/ museum guide of culture, and then actually participating in culture, being a part of making it move and change beyond the freeze frame of acceptable representations.

anyway, thought-provoking.