I’ve been using the term “cultural mutt” or “cultural quiltro” (quiltro is a word we use in Chilean Spanish to call mutts) to describe this feeling of being inserted in more than one community/culture but never getting to feel truly part of any of them.

Today I looked at my phone (a Motorola Moto G85), and saw six new application icons on my app drawer. I recognized those icons, they were the same applications it installed during the first setup I went through when I first got this phone: various games which I can only assume are ad-ridden and have some sort of deal with Motorola/Lenovo to get them installed in as many phones as they can.