Well, the question seems fairly straightforward to me. Does a person's identity influence what he considers foreign. For instance, I have a friend whose parents are Chinese immigrants. That is, they were born in China, then moved to Canada. They quite possibly still consider themselves Chinese, and indeed they spend a lot of their time in China visiting relatives. To them, China is presumably not foreign. Canada may well still seem that way to them, though. My friend, however, was born and raised here. He is uncomfortable using Cantonese, which he considers as his second language. He has made several trips to China, but he views himself as visiting a foreign country when he does so. for him, Canada is his native, familiar country, and China is the foreign, alien one. So, even within one family, with only one generation's difference, individual identity has profoundly influenced how the various family members define what is foreign.
Sean, EssayForum.com