Indian "Americans"

Typing this as I listen to Jhumpa Lahiri on the radio. I am not torn between the 2 countries. The reason is that I am more willing to experience the rest of the world. I am more aware it is a big world and willing to try new things. My Indianness is not threathened by it. But I realize that my story would be pretty similar to the characters in the book perhaps had I come here 30 years earlier and felt so rudely torn away from my roots. All of us that are here now perhaps owe it to the first few Indians that came here to unchartered waters and established the signposts we are so usedto back home or even the need for the signpost, be it a Movie Rental place, restaurant or a grocery store. that enables us to not feel torn and willing to experiment without feeling torn.