text: What culture do you identify with? For Irish Americans identify as Irish, Hispanic Americans identify as Cuban/Hatian/Puerto Rican/etc, same with Japanese Nisei, Koreans, etc.  People of all races identify with their roots a lot. It forms a strong sense of identity.  Somehow, unlike most Americans with a clear cultural heritage, some second gen / 3rd gen Indians in America go out of their way to reject their roots. This manifests in other ways as well.   It to happen far more in the past than it does today. This led to the term.