i think a study of this would make some interesting reading (is there one already?). a thing i have noticed consistently with Indians (hopefully that is changing now...) is that there is almost no sense of individual history. the only history i have seen recorded here is "community" history - marriages, births, deaths, special festivals etc...by the specific caste/religion communities.....
for instance, in kenya - the brits arrived, and then the indians arrived - if i visit a bookshop i see tons of books about various englishmen who in the last hundred years walked /camel backed/ horse backed...from point A to point B in kenya -or- ran a farm in the bush somewhere -or- or went native as a result of marriage/circumstances -or- machine gunned a bunch of locals....and so on.... I know there must be Indians who ended up doing the same things more or less - but never bothered to write anything down. as a result even the way history reads...it tends to be skewed and biased against indians born in this region. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/28/2006 05:55:27 AM: > The 18 year old UK born son of a friend of mine from Mumbai told me that a > Kenyan-Indian friend asked him if he had been to Kenya. When he replied that > he had not, the Kenyan-Indian asked him reproachfully if he "did not care" > for his home country. > > Having said that - it seems to be a common observation that Indians who leave > India in a particular era have the memory of India and Indian culture > "frozen" in that era, and do all that they can to keep that encapsulated > cultural memory alive, even as India itself moves on and evolves. > > I used to think that I was the only person on earth who had noticed this, but > it was pointed out by a 20 year old Indian American girl (in a TV interview) > who had been sent to India (for a proper education) by parents whosememories > of India were frozen (according to the girl) in the 1970s. > > shiv >
