Growing up Asian in American

 What kind of language does the author use? Is it formal or casual, technical or personal, funny or serious, simple or complicated? INFER the author's reasoning behind this style of writing. 

"Sometimes questions came, making allusions to history. That was another aspect of the identity. Events that had happened quite apart from the me who stood silent in that moment connected my face with an incomprehensible past. “Your parents were in California? Were they in those camps during the war?” And sometimes there were phrases or nicknames: “Lotus Blossom.” I was sometimes addressed or referred to as racially Japanese, sometimes as Japanese American, and sometimes as an Asian woman. Confusions and distortions abounded."