Immigrants and Exile

As an international student who has been here for only 3 years which is not long, I've been feeling that I'm adapting to the current environment and slowly being isolated by the previous one. It's interesting that I don't feel entirely Canadian or Chinese, I think this is the "median state" that Said talked about. It sometimes confuses my sense of identity because I am still kind of like a foreigner for both countries, but I do know about both cultures and languages. I think there may be a lot of people like me.

I can definitely relate to that. Even Canadians who are born and raised here can also be considered an exile, what more to immigrants like us.

Definitely. I spent three years in India and about 5 years in Canada, while I'm originally from Korea. It is now hard for me to make sure what typical lifestyle/ personality/ insight of the world I can fit in. Based on that, I can say I'm in the median state as well but not like those who are exiled, because it was my voluntary decision to move to other countries, but not being forced to move out of my homeland. That makes a difference between myself and the exiled explained by Said.