A Chinese man declares that he wishes to be considered French. He starts speaking only in French, dining primarily on French cuisine, and conducting himself as he believes a Frenchman might. None of his coworkers can accept him as a Frenchman for they can see that he is really Chinese. In the context of constructionism, this example demonstrates that one's ability to create identity ultimately depends on social context and response from others, that one's ethnic identification is independent of one's personal history and physical reality, that one's ethnic identification is independent of community ratification, and that one's ability to create identity ultimately depends only on the amount of effort one puts into the process.