Heterogeneous cultural groups have evolved into distinct racial groups that individuals mistakenly recognize as natural rather than a social construction. Historically, people did not identify themselves primarily by race, but rather by ethnic group, language, and kinship. Ethnicity is identification with an ethnic group based on language, religion, historical experience, geographic isolation, kinship, or race. Race consists of phenotypically dissimilar groups in some kind of long-term unequal economic and/or power relationship in which the dominant group justifies its position through some kind of legitimizing ideology. While race has no biological reality, it is culturally real and operates as a primary identity locally and nationally. United I wouldn't say I understood it completely when I was younger, because I heard a lot of comments, but I understood that somehow I was different enough for it to be pointed out. Even though I grew up in that town my entire life, there was never a time in my life where I felt like I belonged or could be identified as American. Honestly, I have developed resentment towards my own racial and ethnic group. I would have preferred at that moment to be of African American or Caucasian descent rather than the one that was being othered. They said "go back to where you came from" and actually never called me Indian, but Arab and other names that didn't align with my racial and ethnic group. My resentment grew due to religious factors, because there were Hindu gods in my house and my mother forced me to do daily prayers. As a child I attended a Baptist church and chose Christianity over Hinduism because Hinduism seemed strange. I was more accustomed to the dominant white culture than the one I had grown up in. Dominant white culture was portrayed as the norm, and Indian culture was a clear outlier that I could point out from a young age.