punjabi_khota Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 I am Punjabi Jat Sikh. I speak some Punjabi' date= some Hindi, some Tamil, some Malayallam, some Cantonese, some Hokkien, some Mandarin, some Dutch, some Portuguese, some French and I speak Malay fluently. My English is so-so. Yet, I am immersed in India. I do not wish to do anything of the sort. Do point out where I have. I am nobody...just human...so I flatter myself ONLY to point out what is humbly human. :omg::omg::omg:..kiddin right ?
cochise Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 I have met the brash Indian-American's you are talking about...for instance, my cousinsson is like that. One was is so completely American, he brings his friends home to his grandpa's house in Punjab and has drinking parties for the weeks he spends there...while the old man goes upstairs and stays in the loft. Is this the way to behave? Does this fella have any values? Does he have any respect? Does he have any conception of Inida or his ancestors? I don't think so. But not all are like that. His sister is doing history, has a deep affection for India, knows history of India and the Sikhs as well, better than I do...and is the most level headed sensible, homely Indian girl you could ever come across. So, if you can come across such variations even in siblings...how can you generalise. Generalisation is basically intellectual laziness mostly. Do not do it.
cochise Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 .kiddin right ? No. It sounds like a lot of languages...but some of the language is not as much as you think it is. You pick it up as you go along.
fineleg Posted January 23, 2009 Author Posted January 23, 2009 Generalisation. Cochise, If you are talking about 4th generation American (3 generations before him/her born and brought up in US) - its not generalization. its reality. There may be exceptions, but exceptions dont make the norm. Anyway - I will leave it at that.
cochise Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 How funny is it that a fourth generation NRI has to explain to an Indian what it means to be Indian? And why it survives centuries of separation from the motherland?
punjabi_khota Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 How funny is it that a fourth generation NRI has to explain to an Indian what it means to be Indian? And why it survives centuries of separation from the motherland? :giggle:
Sachin_Rulez Posted January 24, 2009 Posted January 24, 2009 LOL..no wonder tamilians (not all) hate telugus so much...
fineleg Posted January 24, 2009 Author Posted January 24, 2009 LOL..no wonder tamilians (not all) hate telugus so much... I dont think there is such hate. Very few exceptions here and there may do it. By and large, I think many folks from all over India settle down in TN, and have made it their home, and TN has welcomed them quite well.
Macj Posted January 24, 2009 Posted January 24, 2009 I dont think there is such hate. Very few exceptions here and there may do it. By and large, I think many folks from all over India settle down in TN, and have made it their home, and TN has welcomed them quite well. True but the converse is not true. Tamilians face prejudice sometimes violence even as nearby as neighboring Karnataka.
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