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speak Ainu...be nice to speak it...but..anyway...I speak Italian 'cause that's where I want to be..love Italian stuff...I'm training to be an Italian chef." (Maher 2006). In such person-driven identity traditional language is optional -not rejected but bracketed. This view of language may be confrontational a person who insists language and ethnicity should line up. The ethnic view fosters ethnic allegiance, even orthodoxy. By contrast, "Metroethnicity is a kind of post ethnicity state whereby both we play with ethnicity (not necessarily our

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