HOW TO FIX IN THE INDIAN MATRIX

    ■ One of the managers at my bank is Jamaican mixed with Black, White and Indian.

    When I first saw her I thought she was native indian until she spoke to me. She pursued me to get all my kids to open accounts at her branch and we became quite chatty on own homelands.

    Two years ago, I gave her an invitation for two to attend an Indian cultural evening and she showed up in full Indian regalia, she was beaming, shining and could not get over how beautiful she looked and how comfortable she felt.

    After the show, we went to an Indian restaurant named Balucchis in Forest Hills to dine.

    The owner and waiters know us well and treat me like a king whenever I am there, so when we walked in and they gave us the nod and select table she was shocked that the musicians acknowledged our presence and played music to our table.

    Apparently, this was the first time she donned a sari and dressed indian. Her white american husband wore a dress pants and Nehru shirt.

    Since that event she has attended many indians cultural events at Manhattan Centers and NJ centers on Indian culture.

    She told me she vaguely remembers her indians grandmother who spoke a funny language of Indi, Hinglish and Creole.

    So we do have Indians trying desperately to go white and Spanish or in many cases Bollywood and people of Indian mixes seeking their indian roots and trying to learn how to fit into the indian matrix.

    Many people in America who are mixed with Sikh blood and now look completely white (they ancestors came to the USA in the early 1800's) are now beginning to be proud of their sikh heritage.

    The more we understand and appreciate each other the better for all of us.   

Contributed by Varuna Singh
    An Indo-Guyanese professional living in New-Jersey, USA.

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