My nationality and my looks are Japanese. I was born in Japan and finished my highschool and college education in Japan. But since my dad was always transferring due to his job, I finished my grammar school and junior highschool education( the most important years of a child's life because one's personalities and feelings develop alot during these years.) in US. So there is another me who has an American way of thinking.During my teenage years, I often had an ID crisis between Japanese who can't behave or think like Japanese who grew up all one's life in Japan and Japanese who can never be an American. I often asked myself, "Who am I? What nationality am I?". People who don't understand my particular background always says to me, "You're so lucky that you can speak English well. You don't have to worry about enrolling into schools nor getting jobs." When someone says this, I always say to myself, "Why does everyone think I can speak English well, just because I had been living in the US?? Why does everyone think I can speak Japanese because my nationality is Japanese?? Why does everyone thinks I can speak both languages without any hardships??" And I thought noone understood me. I think this ID crisis is something all of us(kids who had been living overseas because of dad's transfer) go through every now and then. Many kids who had been living overseas have very Japanese old style of point of view. Maybe it's to cover the ID crisis of the Japanese inside myself. Anyways, one day, my best friend since Saturday Japanese school said to me, "We are the kind who have a hard time living in Japan." When I heard her say this, I realized that I wasn't the only one with an ID crisis and I was also very relieved at the same time. Now that I'm all grown up, I know how to use my ID as one of my status and I don't have as much crisis ID as I had during my teenage years. But when my friends from Saturday Japanese school years get together every once in a while, someone always comes up with a story of an ID crisis in Japan.