Insighttful comments, thank you.
Yes, most Hindus (80% of the Indian population) are orthodox and family oriented (like Catholics). Incidentally, see
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FHindu-C...: This autobiography traces Francis X. Clooney's intellectual and spiritual journey from middle-class American Catholicism to a lifelong study of Hinduism. It explains how he came to fashion comparative theology as a way of learning interreligiously that is boldly intellectual and deeply personal and practical, lived out in intersections of his roles as theologian and scholar of Hinduism, as professor and Catholic priest, and over the tumultuous decades from the 1960s until now, in his role as Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard University.
I see many Indian-American weddings happening, from a quick youtube lookup.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FErVe0IdLe5E%3Fs...
BTW, I love Somerville, Boston, NorthEnd, and surroundings.... guessing ftom your nick that you are from there. Spent 19y there before moving to warmer California for the weather and family.
As for cheese, I still love all the stuff that comes out of Wisconsin.
My Daddy came to the US from India in 1963 onboard the QueenMary, for his Masters, worked at NASA and stuff before giving up his GreenCard due to racism. He thinks he found the BigFoot in the mountains of Oregon, and made many Super8mm movies of Disneyland n such that we are trying fo digitize to utubez
Long Story short, my sister and I came here to UGA+GATech and have found Americans wonderfully creative and accepting (only a couple of racist events in my 25 years here ... [came to somve tge Y2KProblem], one from a rude farmer at Bostons HayMarket after 9/11 with my newly married (now-ex) wife.
Even after that unfortunate incident, a Texan colleague offered to beat up saud farmer with his motorcycle buddies.I of course declined, but digested the event eith a couple of beers. A felloe immigrant haymarketer told .me to ignore the uneducated racist basturd.
The Hands that built America by U2 is nice (from the
Gangs of New York).
Peace, Live Long and Prosper as Mr Spock might say (Leonard Nimoy grew up in MA too).
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