Keyword Identity: Is It Meaningful for People To Organize By Keywords?

Is it meaningful for people to organize by keywords?  I was recently invited to join:

http://www.myspace.com/indonesianet

I didn’t feel like I had very much in common with the folks who’s profiles I perused and was most likely found by doing a keyword search.  I feel part Indonesian biologically, but not culturally. Indonesia is part of my biological heritage, but that messy ‘cultural’ part of it is far, far away in my childhood. I feel a good portion of my enculturation happened here in the United States.

Oddly enough, indie/emo music is pretty popular in Indonesia. Half the youth blogs/myspace pages that I visited (via the IndonesiaNet MySpace page) had music from this ‘genre’ on them.

While finishing my thesis in college, I grappled with this idea of memetic colonization of musical forms, assuming (in my anti-capitalist mindset) that it was a one way process. It goes both ways.

• Does anyone else ever feel ‘in between’?
  
• What about other people who - for whatever reason - relocated from their ‘home’ country?
  
• What does it mean to be ‘Indonesian’?
  
• If we are going to ask that, than what does it even mean to be ‘American’?

Leave your comments below.  I’d be particularly interested to hear from folks who are expatriates or whose parent were perhaps Indonesian citizens, but who themselves grew up here in the US.