I should have specified that since I was so young when we went overseas, and I didn't really come back till college (and still went "home" to Africa in summers and $mas), the culture shock came from the US, not the overseas experience. I am still not "American" in most of my instincts, and tend to refer to other Americans as Americans, as if I weren't one. I think of myself as a white African American. I am certainly more African in cultural heritage, if you will allow me to "herit" non-genetic stuff, than American.