Moving from the Cross-cultural to the Intercultural – finding your identity through language(s)

The problem is that too often people tend to associate identity and belonging with language, and will label the speaker accordingly. For my part, I donโ€™t want to be labeled as being part of a culture I either rejected early on or have absolutely no connection to by virtue of its changed geography. I also donโ€™t want to come across as assigning more value to one culture than another