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Your take is very strange, and does not correspond to the Indian immigrant experience from what I have seen. I spent 10 years in the US, and the really weird pa
by sn41 5y ago
Your take is very strange, and does not correspond to the Indian immigrant experience from what I have seen. I spent 10 years in the US, and the really weird part is how stridently Indian parents would push their kids to train in Indian culture - particularly classical dance like Bharatanatyam and Carnatic classical. Of course, since Westerners have hardly even heard about these cultural forms, these do not even exist as "extra-curriculars" for standard university admission boards.
I found the emphasis on Indian cultural roots so disturbing that I had to weasel out of conversations by saying "I don't know anything about classical dance, I am mostly interested in science-fiction". It is easier to have your own way as an Indian middle-class student in India than as second generation Indians in the US.
- plibither8 5y ago> It is easier to have your own way as an Indian middle-class student in India than as second generation Indians in the US. Being an Indian middle-class student in India myself, I'm not sure you understand the level of privilege from which you're making that statement.
- novok 5y agoIt's because they don't want their children to lose their indian culture, despite raising them in a foreign country. When your in india, you don't have to worry about that.