
From what I’ve seen in people I know and from doomscrolling, it could be several sometimes overlapping reasons. - Wanting to assimilate and conform, - trying to avoid being discriminated, - colonial mentality (hating your own ethnic background/skin/accent/appearance), - societal scars from colonization), - privilege in so many forms (looking white-passing, financially comfortable family, toxic masculinity + the patriarchy, luck and access to opportunities and the ignorance it causes)