I'm wondering how everyone feels about this. I'm 1/4 Japanese, 1/2 white (Euro mix) and 1/4 mix of what we think is Cherokee and possibly some white but we really don't know. I self-identify as being Japanese, White & Cherokee. Some people say that only being 1/4 Japanese means that somehow I'm not at all or I'm not "REALLY". I was born in the US, however my mom was born in Japan and raised as a child in Taiwan by her Japanese mother and American father, but her father was in the military so she saw much less of him. Then I was raised in Texas, but my father worked a lot and I was raised primarily by my mother at home. I grew up eating sushi, sukiyaki, etc on a daily basis and watching unico, playing with hello kitty, etc. So I didn't have a regular "White American" upbringing. My legal birth name was Melissa, but I have never really gone by that name I always had a nickname and have been going by Miko since I was a young teenager. It comes from my grandmother's name Fumiko. My mother and grandmother are very proud of their Japanese heritage and glad that I am also. Would you say that I am wrong or misrepresenting myself as identifying myself as Miko, the Japanese/White girl? I just have a feeling like a lot of people think so.
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