African American

The rest of her life has been in the United States. She does not even speak much Japanese, although can understand some.

An odd thing happens with cross-culture kids - they have almost no "us". She apparently is not considered sufficiently black to be accepted as black. She is apparently not sufficiently Japanese to be accepted as Japanese. She has been viewed as an outsider by nearly everyone in her 20 short years.

Every group that should welcome her as "us", instead calls her, "them" - including her own mother's family. Apparently, other than her father's family (and possibly some of the Haitian community), her mother, and her sister, she has had no "us", although now that she is rich and famous and successful, more people will view her as, "us".

I cannot imagine how bitter the taste must be.