Do you know where you're from?

Reading most of the posts on here, many people are talking about heritage and where you come from. While thinking about this topic I thought of all the people out there that don't know what they are. My older brother is adopted, and we don't know his biological family. He doesn't know what his heritage is, or what countries to say when asked "where are you from?" I feel that we have discussed the biracial topic, but not too much about people who have no idea where they're from. I have never really asked him how he responds when people ask him where he's from because we don't talk about it all that much in my family. For him, it's just easier to identify himself as a white, American male because he doesn't know his personal heritage. When we were talking about the census and the "African American, black, or Negro" section, I felt that this could be for people who aren't sure of their background, and just identify as black. I feel that if they had a section with "white, European American, caucasian" or something written out, that he would have just checked "white" because he wouldn't know any other box to check.

Laura Kalinowski, Post 6