The born and raised list should also allow multiple selections; service kids, at the very least, might well need to list multiple.
Except the information I want isn't really a list of where a person's lived, but how the person is acculturated ... and military kids, like FSO kids and work-assignment temp-resident folks and teacher-students and aupairs and what not... are most often not going to acculturate. Either they're mostly isolated in a bubble of fellow citizens, like at the embassy or on a military base (cf American Schools), or they're not going to bother because they know they'll be leaving after a set period of time. (Also, therefore, the least likely to suffer any major culture shock, because they can stave it off by knowing there'll be an end to the alienation.)
On four, you might actually get closer answers to what you're looking for if you asked whether someone is "Western/Westernized".
I did a revised version (up in the post, and probably put up just after you finished writing this), and noodled with "westernized" but for the reasons mentioned in the edit, I think it's an even less-clear option than simply asking about skin color of self vs expected skin color of culture's privileged class. Westernized means too many other things on top of race, to such a degree that someone who'd definitely suffer major PoC discrim could still consider him/herself "westernized" while within native culture, due to wearing Western clothes and listening to American pop music and drinking cheap Philly beer. And stuff.
Man, oh, man. This is what I get for not wanting to just assume a US-only audience of respondents, ain't it.
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Date: 15 May 2010 08:05 pm (UTC)Except the information I want isn't really a list of where a person's lived, but how the person is acculturated ... and military kids, like FSO kids and work-assignment temp-resident folks and teacher-students and aupairs and what not... are most often not going to acculturate. Either they're mostly isolated in a bubble of fellow citizens, like at the embassy or on a military base (cf American Schools), or they're not going to bother because they know they'll be leaving after a set period of time. (Also, therefore, the least likely to suffer any major culture shock, because they can stave it off by knowing there'll be an end to the alienation.)
On four, you might actually get closer answers to what you're looking for if you asked whether someone is "Western/Westernized".
I did a revised version (up in the post, and probably put up just after you finished writing this), and noodled with "westernized" but for the reasons mentioned in the edit, I think it's an even less-clear option than simply asking about skin color of self vs expected skin color of culture's privileged class. Westernized means too many other things on top of race, to such a degree that someone who'd definitely suffer major PoC discrim could still consider him/herself "westernized" while within native culture, due to wearing Western clothes and listening to American pop music and drinking cheap Philly beer. And stuff.
Man, oh, man. This is what I get for not wanting to just assume a US-only audience of respondents, ain't it.