Selma said,
Such is the utter indifference of the Indian community to assimilation. Albeit
my experiences were more with the Indian guest workers in the US, but some of
them had been in the US for upto ten years. Yet, they led lives parallel and in
complete apathy to their host country. Shopping in their own grocery stores,
watching Bollywood and Tamil movies over the weekend, buying enough clothes in
India to last their stay in America and constantly disparaging the American
system of education which explores creativity rather than learning by rote.
There is no curiosity at all about another culture, no interaction beyond the
most superficial and no involvement in their community affairs. Instead they
chose to live in a cocoon of India transplanted. (In good conscience, I must
add here that in this respect Goans fare much more favorably, because there is
a genuine willingness to assimilate when we migrate and it is this more than
anything else that defines our
community in diaspora.)
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Reply:
YET WE ARE CALLED 'PAKIS', eating kity kat food.
You have not lived long enough in the Western countries to realise that:
It took over 60 years for the Whites in UK to eat chicken tikka masala.
Most of the USA whites still do not know where India is (ask Dabya if he knew).
If it was not for the Indians sticking together, Southall would have been burnt
to the ground.
People like you are called COCONUTS.
Brown outside White inside.
You think you are white because of your religion (so does the average Indian in
India).
ED.
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