&gt; Because you buy into the idea of opposing ideologies, of national identity<p>In an ideal world, we wouldn&#x27;t have things like this or racism; but it&#x27;s extremely naive to pretend it doesn&#x27;t exist. If you have any familiarity with current events in East Asia, you&#x27;ll know that nationalism is on the rise.<p>On a related note, did you not read this portion of my comment? &quot;I&#x27;m guessing (and hoping) that most naturalized US citizens are way more loyal than that and I feel that Chinese Americans born and raised in the US don&#x27;t have this issue at all.&quot; Everything isn&#x27;t black and white.<p>&gt; You can, rather, look at this from the perspective of arguing parents, where they want you to pick one or the other. The only way to win is to not play, and to derive identity from your self, rather than what patch of dirt you happened to be born upon.<p>There are multiple problems with this analogy. 1. You only get the 3rd choice if you&#x27;re willing not to live in either parent&#x27;s house when we&#x27;re talking countries.
2. Another problem is that you&#x27;re looking at this from a Western perspective. In the East, especially in Asia; you derive your identify more from the group and not the individual; so if you consider yourself more &#x27;Chinese&#x27; than &#x27;American&#x27;, you&#x27;re going to symphatize more with one side. It&#x27;s a different culture that you&#x27;re obviously not familiar with.