[c=#7700B2]Wow. These are such interesting thoughts, and so well expressed. I hope you will find a sense of belonging in other ways ~ if you want to ~ and continue to have an open mind and heart regardless of who you are "supposed" to get along with.[/c]

I’m korean and English and I have mostly grown up as korean even though born in england. I love living where we do but I do t really have many English native friends with growing up strictly as korean.
So for me it’s more been my mums choices to not really allow English ways rather than me not wanting to.
It can feel weird for sure at times.

I know how it is, my papa is Austro-Romanian and came here as a refugee with his parents. I have been to Austria and it still feels strange. My mama is native here, in the UK though, so I don't really feel like I belong anywhere. I have more of my papas accent so I get a bit shtick for that.

Maybe start reading about other countries and learn a few widely spoken languages?

Maybe you'll get a chance to try another country and who knows? The grass might be greener on the other side.

I'm not that patriotic either.

I like how people are proud of their singing tradition in Estonia though, if you could call that patriotic, as they ought to be, as they were the country who sang their way to freedom.

I know the feeling. I'm supposed to be Irish and yet my accent makes many people here treat me like an outsider. I'm not at home in England either as my accent sounds Irish to them and, aside from being born in England, I have no connection with the place and I've spent nearly all my life in Ireland.

I wish I thought that it doesn't matter, that the world is changing and that people will learn to accept differences. I'm not that optimistic. Some things will never change.