Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all those posters whose Indian parents came over in the 60s and are lamenting the loss of the "real" Indian values in Indian kids today...I've got news for you. Those 2000s kids are the real Indians. Your parents are frozen in time and nobody in India is like that anymore. I say this as someone who came to the US for undergrad in 2001. I still have all my family in India, visit every year unlike very old Indian immigrants who don't have much to do with the country anymore.

Agree with you 100%. The kids who grew up here did retain those values. As a person who immigrated in the late 90s, i can see the culture erosion everytime I visit India and in the recent immigrants. There is no camaraderie any more just a craze for money & status.

+1.

+1000. I think this is happening in India but also China, Korea etc. These were places with rich tradition and history and culture that used to pass from generation to generation; now it's becoming more and more like the U.S. -- more and more stuff from iphones to Gucci this and Prada that. That's what's more important.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all those posters whose Indian parents came over in the 60s and are lamenting the loss of the "real" Indian values in Indian kids today...I've got news for you. Those 2000s kids are the real Indians. Your parents are frozen in time and nobody in India is like that anymore. I say this as someone who came to the US for undergrad in 2001. I still have all my family in India, visit every year unlike very old Indian immigrants who don't have much to do with the country anymore.

Agree with you 100%. The kids who grew up here did retain those values. As a person who immigrated in the late 90s, i can see the culture erosion everytime I visit India and in the recent immigrants. There is no camaraderie any more just a craze for money & status.

+1.

Anonymous wrote:I see more anti-Hispanic, anti- African American, anti-Muslim, and anti-Catholic sentiment on DCUM. The hatred of Latinos here is really shocking. Latinos appear to be the most hated group on DCUM and in America right now besides Muslims.

Now you're trying to take being most hated away from us too? Can we have nothing?

No way. No one is hated more than the American Black. Latinos are notoriously color struck. All those groups look down on and hate the American Black the most.

Anonymous wrote:From all the threads on Indians that are posted here, I get the impression that there is a strong anti-Indian sentiment on this board. Do you see this reflected in your day to day interactions? Is it the anonymity that brings out the haters here or is it just a small number of overactive posters.

Just because people smile in your face doesn't mean they aren't virulent racists. Welcome to AmeriKKKa.

Re. Servants. In the US there is a large invisible army of people who harvest your crops, top and tail your beans, pack them up and make a sub minimum wage doing this. There are also people who inhale toxic fumes and get you your petroleum products, hapless folk who make your Vineyard Vines clothes. This is your exploited 'servant class'.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all those posters whose Indian parents came over in the 60s and are lamenting the loss of the "real" Indian values in Indian kids today...I've got news for you. Those 2000s kids are the real Indians. Your parents are frozen in time and nobody in India is like that anymore. I say this as someone who came to the US for undergrad in 2001. I still have all my family in India, visit every year unlike very old Indian immigrants who don't have much to do with the country anymore.

Actually most of that generation visits every year because they now have the money to do so. They didn't before. The generation that came over in the 60s worked hard to get here. The generation that came over in the 2000s came over because they have rich families that could afford to send them here (people like you - what other 20 something can afford to go back to India every year?).

Not PP, bu another 20s indian who came here on a full scholarship and saved carefully so I could go to India every year. Tickets to India are not very expensive you know. Less expensive than half a dozen shabby-chic dresses you probably buy at Anthro.

Anonymous wrote:To all those posters whose Indian parents came over in the 60s and are lamenting the loss of the "real" Indian values in Indian kids today...I've got news for you. Those 2000s kids are the real Indians. Your parents are frozen in time and nobody in India is like that anymore. I say this as someone who came to the US for undergrad in 2001. I still have all my family in India, visit every year unlike very old Indian immigrants who don't have much to do with the country anymore.

Actually most of that generation visits every year because they now have the money to do so. They didn't before. The generation that came over in the 60s worked hard to get here. The generation that came over in the 2000s came over because they have rich families that could afford to send them here (people like you - what other 20 something can afford to go back to India every year?).

Anonymous wrote:To all those posters whose Indian parents came over in the 60s and are lamenting the loss of the "real" Indian values in Indian kids today...I've got news for you. Those 2000s kids are the real Indians. Your parents are frozen in time and nobody in India is like that anymore. I say this as someone who came to the US for undergrad in 2001. I still have all my family in India, visit every year unlike very old Indian immigrants who don't have much to do with the country anymore.

Agree with you 100%. The kids who grew up here did retain those values. As a person who immigrated in the late 90s, i can see the culture erosion everytime I visit India and in the recent immigrants. There is no camaraderie any more just a craze for money & status.

To all those posters whose Indian parents came over in the 60s and are lamenting the loss of the "real" Indian values in Indian kids today...I've got news for you. Those 2000s kids are the real Indians. Your parents are frozen in time and nobody in India is like that anymore. I say this as someone who came to the US for undergrad in 2001. I still have all my family in India, visit every year unlike very old Indian immigrants who don't have much to do with the country anymore.

DCUM, a place where everyone can come to feel bad about themselves.

Everyone and everything has a counter part of "anti" on DCUM. So no matter what it is:
"I like bunnies."
"You seem unhinged PP"

There will be people hating on it. I think you notice it more, if you belong to that group. I am a SAHM, I feel like everyone on this board hates SAHM, thinks SAHMs are idiot golddiggers and do absolutely nothing of worth. But of course I realize that there are just as many who feel the opposite, who feel stereotypical vitriol against WOHM and that DCUM opinion is hardly a real world opinion, you know?

Example - on a post the other day I said that I really enjoyed making others feel happy and content. I was told I was the worst kind of woman and that I should be mindful that I was making others feel bad about themselves. That is not remotely true, but it is DCUM true, you know?

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Anonymous wrote:I wasn't even veering off the subject that's the sad part...idk how he/she thought I was actually talking about breast feeding mothers. They missed my point completely...oh well, I hope some people at least saw what I was doing there.

Understood it perfectly. You were just describing the phenomenon of the DCUM hive mind.

Haha yes, I like how you phrased it!

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't even veering off the subject that's the sad part...idk how he/she thought I was actually talking about breast feeding mothers. They missed my point completely...oh well, I hope some people at least saw what I was doing there.

Understood it perfectly. You were just describing the phenomenon of the DCUM hive mind.

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't even veering off the subject that's the sad part...idk how he/she thought I was actually talking about breast feeding mothers. They missed my point completely...oh well, I hope some people at least saw what I was doing there.

I totally got it.

I wasn't even veering off the subject that's the sad part...idk how he/she thought I was actually talking about breast feeding mothers. They missed my point completely...oh well, I hope some people at least saw what I was doing there.