If I had to identify with one non-North American culture, it would be Japanese. That's fairly random for a blonde-haired, blue-eyed English speaker, I realize that. I didn't know much about Japan until a girl from Nagano lived with my family one summer during high school. I entered college, and the 9 AM Japanese classes I kept ending up in somehow developed into my major. It turns out that my school had one of the strongest East Asian Studies programs out there. My sense