A chameleon was born
I've always struggled with the idea that one can only be of one nationality and never the other. If you're born in Japan, naturally you are seen as a Japanese. But I grew up in a complicated family, with several moms and a half sister, who are both Taiwanese. Weirdly, having different mothers didn't stop me from growing closer to my big sister, and I would often visit her during the summer and winter breaks. Learning Chinese almost felt native to me, I didn't study grammar or remember 100 vocabularies, I just hanged out with my Taiwanese side of the family a lot. But as close as I was to this side of the family, I never really felt accepted into it. I was always "That Japanese kid" to them, and even till today, some uncles still bring up the story of my "Chinese learning phase", which really just mean "when you were talking all funny" with great fondness. On the other side, because my mother was an English teacher, she was determined that...