The Great Indian Divide!
I have never felt like an outsider among Americans in US...but among Indians from South India i sure have felt like an alien.
As the software business is booming in southern India more and more and many more South Indians have been flocking to the US. All of them be it Andhra,Tamil Nadu,Karnataka ,Kerala ...bond instantly.And we folks from North India are outcasts.
Why?
Because we dont speak Telgu,Tamil,Malyalam. and speak hindi..which by the way is our National language and they look down upon it?...dosa,idli is not our staple diet and we are more open to trying out western food? Or is it that we patronise Bollywood more than Lollywood?
If both south and north are part of the same India then why is this divide so clearly visible in this alien land?
2 comments:
Why do you say that it is visible only here - in India the differences are even more pronounced. Rather than question the differences in language, food and culture, we would all be better off accepting them.
But when u are away in a foreign land you want to be represented as an
Indian .just- Indian..not a North Indian or a South Indian.
Its not about accepting or rejecting our differences but its about a
harmonious united front in an alien land!
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