Maybe habits wasn’t the right word, more like mannerism.

Basically how I dressed, how I walked, how I spoke.

You could tell the difference between me and the other kids at my school. They all wore salmon pink pants, khakis, dress shirts, boat shoes and it was the brand ‘vineyard vines’ was a huge deal to them.

I also didn’t speak proper English to them. My dialect is all fucked up though, it’s a weird mixture of Italian, Jewish and urban dialects.

Everything was weird because a lot of them wanted to ‘act black’ when in reality things that I actually did/say they were trying to do/say but you can tell it was unnatural. So obviously acting black isn’t a thing, they were acting urban.

As for ‘acting white’ when I went home and tried showing my friends the song “Fluorescent Adolescent” by Arctic Monkeys, that’s all they needed before saying I acted white.