How many non desi friends do you have ?
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Posted on: 15-09-15 10:43:31
Does the second generation fare any better? In terms of integrating with the goras.
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Originally posted by crish
Does the second generation fare any better? In terms of integrating with the goras.
Not much I belive, unless one is completely transformed culturally and mentally, but even after that it is very to find.
They may have few so called friends during college days - for common projects, partying, being a room-mat and others, but if you think about someone being a lifelong friend, a very few would have those.
Inter-racial marriages are a different story and worth another thread!
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A Proud Indian Canadian
I think in general you will be very friendly with goras and they will be also be very friendly with you, but you won't necessarily be friends. It will be a more superficial & shallow type of friendliness, not really anything deep & meaningful. At the end of the day, you can do without them and they can also without you.
Being friendly and actually being friends are 2 totally different things. So you will keep a safe distance from each other & the attitude will be, I am here to be friendly with you, but we are NOT necessarily friends.
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Originally posted by Garvo Gujarati
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Originally posted by crish
Does the second generation fare any better? In terms of integrating with the goras.
Not much I belive, unless one is completely transformed culturally and mentally, but even after that it is very to find.
They may have few so called friends during college days - for common projects, partying, being a room-mat and others, but if you think about someone being a lifelong friend, a very few would have those.
Inter-racial marriages are a different story and worth another thread!
All my cousins born and raised here have a 100% desi friend circle. Doesn't matter if they went to a Med school in States. They completely confined themselves to the Desi crowd. When I asked them, surprisingly their response was similar to what we are discussing here - they simply couldn't relate to the different lifestyle, i.e. marriages, family bonding, music (yes, some of them do listen to the Bollywood), food (Masala Bar-be-que), etc. Even the ones that truly transformed themselves to the North American lifestyle have 100% desi friends.
I am reminded here of Lord Mountbatten who gave the following explanation for the division of the Indian subcontinent into India & Pakistan ...
'Despite living together for centuries , both communities have different religious and cultural values , eating & living habits and hence do not integrate fully '
Which I am sure is present of India today as well .... Where huge cultural dissimilarities exist , it is difficult to homogenize.
We are diverting this discussion to goras but what about non desi non goras ... Chinese , Somalians , Middle Easterners ?? Its the same story ...
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Fido.
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Originally posted by mcg7
Now Modiji took charge - he want change this all nonsense- but see so many India haters hate him for that .
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Originally posted by Fido
but what about non desi non goras ... Chinese , Somalians , Middle Easterners ?? Its the same story ...
The same story there as well. In my office, South Indians have lunch and mingle among themselves - nothing to do with Northies (and vice-a-versa). We, North Indians have a company with Pakistanis than the Southerners, due to the language, food, and cultural similarities.
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