Re: Halloween and other occasions
CB, I don’t know families that do such things honestly.
This is a verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry good point! Actually, I find a lot of people who came to the US later on even more eager to adopt any and all western practices they can get their hands on. That has been my experience.
People don’t celebrate Halloween in order to assimilate. Omg. Its something to do…its innocent and fun and that’s all there is to it. Just because you wear pants to work and not a shalwar doesn’t mean you’re dying to become a gora. Why do you eat American food when there are desi restaurants here? You are dying to assimilate into the haram haram gora world. You’re trying to forget your achaar-bharay roots.
Why does everything have to have some sort of sinister meaning behind it?
People who came here earlier…they had to work hard to keep their religion and culture alive for their kids. As a result, I don’t think ABCD’s are as confused as people think. The Qur’an wasn’t written in Urdu. Not being able to speak Urdu or trick or treating doesn’t make one confused, it just makes them whatever nationality is on their passport. Much like tons of desi people can’t speak grammatically correct English or don’t wear deodorant. What does that make them? You have your perceptions, other people have their own.
Anyone that can be hit with a ton of stereotypes should be the last one stereotyping.