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Originally Posted by LoganSnake
You may have been born in the former USSR, but you are pretty much American in my eyes. Your parents might have been a great contribution in instilling Russian traditions and values into you (or not, I don't know), but without actually experiencing Russian culture firsthand (something you couldn't have done at the ripe age of 3), you miss that certain characteristic that makes a person...well...foreign.
I'm not sure if that makes sense, though.
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it definitely makes sense, yet i do feel as if my place of birth and the contact i have had with my parents and their exclusively russian friends does make me different than most americans who have been here for generations. Having that contact with a second culture and growing up in a house where english wasn't spoken gives me a different outlook on things sometimes. i really can't classify myself as 100% american. english wasn't my first language, and i only began to speak english when i was 6 and began school in america.