• The Colonial fixation

    Being here in US for a couple of years, has given me this opportunity to observe the US working Indians from a close quarter. What surprised me is that how a few of them, should I say many of them?, actually think that they belong here even if they are here only for a few months (in some cases days).

    They way they dress, their accent, their attitude everything changes from east to west (literally). Recently I had a chance to talk to Mirza about this. Mirza, who in spite of being in US for 15 years still speaks like a typical Hyderabadi, did his higher education here and he was sharing his college experience, how guys who land in hawai slippers not just change to sport shoes within months but also start looking down on other desi from India.

    I started thinking a bit more into it, what could be the psyche behind such behaviour from some our compatriots ? In what way the culture of west is better than that of India ?

    Is an extension of colonial fixation? Are we still not out of it?
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