Brotherhood Dharma, Destiny And The American Dream - Plot & Excerpts
she said to Amita. “Are we Christian or Jewish?” As we discovered, all the kids in her class were talking about Christmas and Hanukkah. They were going to get gifts, and they were going to celebrate with family and friends. But when they asked Kanika what she was going to celebrate, she was bewildered.“We are Hindu,” Amita explained. One of the most difficult challenges faced by immigrants is whether to integrate the traditions and lifestyle of the culture you left behind into your life in America, and if so, to what degree? “Assimilation” is a very important word in immigrant communities. Sometimes, in the desire to be thought of as completely American, to fit in, almost all of one’s own homeland culture is forgotten or buried. People want to leave their old life behind. I have a colleague in Boston, for example, whose name is Roger Komer. In India it was Raj Kumar. But more often, as in our family, we tried to find a way of combining our Indian heritage with our American life.
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