Growing up in South Orange County as a third/ fourth generation, Japanese/ Chinese American, nearly all of my relatives live in the United States (mostly California and Hawaii). So, unlike many of my friends, I do not have any close relatives I can visit in other countries and there is no real expectation for me to travel to Japan or China in order to learn about my ancestry because it exists here, within my relationships to aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc. The ‘need’ to go abroad, is much less...
