To me where I was born and grow up does not have any meaning as I do not feel I am from that land and culture. However I could not help but be influenced by their culture. I feel the same way about the countries where my parents where born, which were different from each other and from mine. Interestingly, I did not feel I belong to the lands of my father or the lands of my mother, yet to some degree I was imbued by their cultures and costumes. Both of my parents were displaced from their original countries by WWII.
It was only after living a few years in America that a sense of "belonging" developed. So, I am from America by the grace of God, and just so happen to be living in the Northern Virginia near DC.
