Hi Selma, I will get you the numbers if available. But here is what I know. The total Asian Indian population in America is 2.5 millions. From actual surveys it appears that about 1.5 million of these are Hindus. The remaining must belong to other religions, or be non-religious. I estimate for instance from the distribution in Houston neighborhoods that there is a significant over-representation of Kerala Christians compared to that in Indian cities. It is certainly likely that there are more Goan Christians than Hindus in America.
Regardless, I hope you agree that the following misleading quote is derisively targeted towards the Hindu community in America: "young Indian Americans suffer from cultural bigotry, and that this experience sends them in search of an identity fix – either to benign or not so benign organisations. The VHPA and its "Yankee Hindutva" parivar know this fully well. " ----selected by Marshall Mendonza Cheers, Santosh Selma wrote: > >Hi Santosh, >I'd really be curious to know and if you could back this up with some >>published statistics, whether the Indian-American community/social >>organisations in the US are indeed well represented by Christians, >Muslims, >Parsees and Sikhs. > --- On Sat, 3/21/09, Marshall Mendonza <mmendonz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does Santosh believe and want us to believe that Hindutva > (ideology) and > Hinduism (religion) are synonymous? > Does Santosh suggest the Hindutva represents hindus > and hindu religion? > Does Santosh expect us to keep off hindutva activities > which affect our > common well being and safety if we do not happen to be > hindus? > I look forward to his response. >
