I'm glad that you made this post. I was born to a Pakistani father and a French-Canadian mother, both of whom moved far from whom and didn't really bring their cultures with them. I've been struggling with a lot of things in reading this discussion as well. I am, in a parallel way I guess, about as Canadian as it's possible to be. When I read that assuming the dominant culture as my own was problematic, it gave me great cognitive dissonance. First, it assumes that because my skin isn't white that I'm assuming something. But I've never had a culture other than Canadian. If I'm not Canadian, then what am I? (And why am I not allowed to be Canadian because of my skin colour?) I can also count the number of times that I've felt treated differently by someone who was not a telemarketer on two hands. (Telemarketers are constantly calling me and offering me cheap long distance plans to Pakistan. I don't know anybody there. However, it's always the same company, so perhaps I can collapse that to one really long and monotonous incident.) Anyhow, I've felt remarkably out of place in this discussion, especially in terms of my place in the connections being made between skin tone and culture. It's good to not feel alone.