Anyone else struggle with a sense of identity due to being from different places?

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In my case I have an English parent, and had a parent from another country. Growing up we lived in a third country.

I’ve now continuously been in the UK for 26 years - however I wouldn’t say that I feel particularly “English” - though probably I am more English than anything else - I sound it and it’s my mother tongue.

Currently I am in my Mum’s country where I am considered a foreigner despite speaking the language. However someone in England would describe me as being partly from this place.

I think if we had grown up in either of our countries it would feel different and I would feel more rooted in one culture or the other.

Just wondering if anyone else can relate and also how you deal with what I think is a kind of cognitive dissonance.

Not me but my DH does. His family are Indian but he grew up in southern Europe. He's now lived most of his life in UK. He often struggles with his identity! I imagine our children will too - looking half Indian, growing up in UK but having the southern European connection too. Like my husband they are legal citizens of 3 very different countries.
I have it easy in terms of identity being purely British. But we talk about it positively, saying aren't they lucky to still be European etc.
At the end of the day, we're all unique individuals and our nationality doesn't define us.

Thanks for your answer @SallyWD . Yes I can imagine it must be a struggle for your dh. 3 citizenships must be amazing - we never got the citizenship of the country we grew up in so have 2.

Interestingly my dc are also half Indian in addition to the bits that they get from me - but somehow their identify comes more from
the town we live in rather than their parents’ backgrounds.