🌏 Too Eastern for the West, Too Western for the East: The Beauty of Belonging to Yourself

🔥 "When you don’t quite fit in either world, it doesn’t mean you’re lost it means you’re a bridge. And bridges were built to carry legacy." — KNg Dynasty

The Identity Tug-of-War

I grew up with jasmine rice and maple syrup on the same dinner table. I spoke Chinese to my grandparents, English to my teachers, and sometimes silence to myself when I didn’t know which version of me was allowed to speak.

In the West, I was too “other.” My lunch smelled funny, my name was mispronounced, and my culture felt like something I had to explain rather than celebrate.
In the East, I was too "foreign." My Chinese wasn’t perfect, my fashion a little too bold, my ideas a little too loud. I was labeled a “banana” yellow on the outside, white on the inside.

It hurt.

I felt like a cultural orphan constantly shifting, code-switching, and second-guessing.

But Here’s What No One Tells You:

You don’t have to pick a side.
You were never meant to blend in.

You were meant to build.
To create a space where your hybridity isn’t a burden but a superpower.

Because being “not enough” of either doesn’t mean you’re less
It means you’re more.

The Dynasty Within

The KNg Dynasty isn’t just a name.
It’s a reclamation. It’s the blending of cultures, the merging of past and present, the fusion of fierce and faithful.
It’s owning your roots both the ones planted in ancient cities and the ones that grew through cracked pavement in a new country.

It’s dancing between traditions with boldness.
It’s writing your story in a language that doesn’t need translation.
It’s rocking Jordan 1s under a qipao.
It’s eating dim sum after Sunday church.

This is where we thrive.
Not in the molds others try to place us in,
but in the dynasty we define for ourselves.

To the Ones Who Don’t Fit In:

You’re not broken. You’re complex.
You’re not confused. You’re layered.
You’re not too much. You’re exactly right.

Being both means you understand more.
Feel deeper. Connect broader.

So don’t shrink.

Shine louder.

Wear your cultures like armor and like art.
Tell your story. Let your duality breathe.
Because the world doesn’t need more copies.
It needs the dynasty that only you can build.

👑 KNg Dynasty Affirmation:

"I don’t have to belong anywhere to build a space that belongs to me.
My culture is not either/or it is both/and.
And in that in-between, I am whole."