More seriously .. how do people from the _next_ generation who emigrate feel?
<<Yet, within each of us lie contradictions. We tout American enterprise and capitalism yet engage in acts that are antithetical to free will: conducting an arranged marriage before a thousand guests in one's native village after spending years in America; consulting an astrologer or shaving a child's hair on a preordained auspicious day>> etc etc. Left to myself, with no pressure from parents, I would not have followed several customs (shaving a child's hair as part of a religious ceremony etc). There's no shortage of others here who may not have the same nostalgia for jasmine flowers and silk sarees, who have emigrated and spent a significant amount of time abroad [perhaps not two decades, shall we say 5 or 6 years?]. How does the model suggested here shift, when this current generation is considered?
