Heterogeneous cultural groups have evolved into distinct racial groups that individuals mistakenly recognize as natural rather than a social construct. Historically, people did not identify themselves primarily based on race, but rather ethnic group, language, and kinship. Ethnicity is identification with an ethnic group based on language, religion, historical experience, geographic isolation, kinship, or race. Race is made up of phenotypically different groups in some sort of long-term unequal power and/or economic relationships where the dominant group justifies its position through some sort of legitimizing ideology. Although race has no biological reality, it is culturally real and functions as a primary identity locally and nationally. UnitedI wouldn't say I completely understood it when I was younger, because I heard a lot of comments, but I understood that I was somehow different enough for people to point it out. Even though I grew up in this city my entire life, there was never a time in my life where I felt like I belonged or could be identified as an American. Honestly, I developed resentment towards my own ethnic and racial group. I would have preferred at the time to be of African American or Caucasian descent rather than the othered one. They would tell me “go back where you came from” and never call me Indian, but Arab, and other names that did not fit my racial and ethnic group. I developed resentment due to religious factors, as there were Hindu gods all over my house and my mother forced me to do daily prayers. Growing up, I went to a Baptist church and chose Christianity over Hinduism because Hinduism seemed weird to me. I was more accustomed to the dominant white culture than the one I grew up in. Dominant white culture was portrayed as the norm, and Indian culture was clearly an exception that I was able to emphasize from a young age.