Before we can delve into the subject, we must define HOME.<<
Permit me to use "assamese ex-patriates" as a metaphor to define "Home"---in a sense of total assimilation,integration or adaptation.Abroad,they have to forge a new identity for themselves,individually and as a community.It seems to me that their identity is tied to their culture,but it is not the same as it was at "home" ( Assam )--it has to address the new community directly and situate itself within that milieu.The scenario of assamese,living elsewhere in India, is somewhat different--a home within a bigger home.But here in the US or UK,we,the immigrants, tend to mix old ones to create complex new unities.I really wonder if this is the semiotic of total assimilation--a sense of feeling "completely at home".
KJD
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