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Byron Fija, 42, has an identity crisis.
Part of it is his looks. He's Japanese, born to a white American father and an Okinawan mother, a couple who never married, and he seems to take more after his dad. But it's when he speaks that people are really taken aback.
Fija is often asked why he speaks in Okinawa "hogen" (dialect), from people who assume he is a foreigner.