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I guess, like most foreigners, when you're away, you see your own culture being even more strange. But where I come from and my roots mean a lot. I miss my family and my friends. Something I've realized as I've been traveling is that it's more about the actual people than the actual place.

In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but being country is a way of life.

I feel very comfortable in New York, in a city where there is no such thing as 'nationality.'

It's hard to think of myself as an American, and yet I am not from India, a place where I was not born and where I have never lived.

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.

I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.

I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.