Do you feel that you have an identity?

Mamba wrote:

Am I a French Catholic or an Eastern European Jew? Am I both at once? Which one should I identify with more and what should I tell people I am being that I believe religion is BS? Do people really believe I'm not white enough even though my skin is white as snow and my eyes are blue? Should I tell people I'm a French Jew? Should I say I'm basically Catholic because I was raised by my Catholic half of the family for the majority of my childhood? Should I identify more as Western or Eastern European when I'm both? I ask myself these and many other related questions all the time as part of my inner identity conflict and it gives me a sense of being a split identity which really means I don't have an identity.

There are other reasons I have an unstable identity but my multicultural background is definitely one of the most prominent sources of my identity problem.

Interesting...this made me think about my upbringing. I was raised to think I was Paris Hilton, only I wasn't. My upper-middle class family, desperately trying to appear wealthy, spent years grooming me to think that I was more than special, buying my compliance with money and gifts, but most of the time ignoring me. Kids in school picked on me mercilessly because I was different. The teachers hated me (and bullied me too) because my Dad was on the school board and had many enemies. I grew up thinking that I was simultaneously beautiful and ugly, intelligent and stupid, catered to and rejected, important and unimportant.