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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1485621744888","data":"When I came to the US from India as a young girl, for a long time I was guilty of broad generalizations about those born in the US. While I had not conquered these disagreeable human inclinations, I felt as though I was learning to manage them. Often, observations on cultural differences are based on our own weakness and reflect our inability to connect with that culture. Thus, I found myself associating with an entirely Indian community out of fear of the strange and invasive culture I was thrust into. <\/p>On several occasions, I felt my personal space was being encroached upon and wondered how American\u2019s could stand being so close to each other and to talk so freely with the opposite gender. In fact, I felt incredibly uncomfortable sitting as close to or liberally associating with men as I often had to because of the seating charts that schools in the US are so fond of. There is also a different attitude towards just about everything when observing different cultures. For instances in countries such as India, nothing is as severely sexualised as American media. The best examples of this different attitude are American advertisements. We see commercials of bikini clad women strutting down the streets while seductively eating a massive sandwich as the standard fast food commercial. It was just uncomfortable to switch from such a modest culture to one so needlessly open. I was not the only one who has had this type of experience either. I personally knew other immigrants from places like Pakistan and Iran that felt the same way I did. <\/p>In high school, I was friends with a girl whose family emigrated from Iran. However, she came to America at a very young age which allowed her to adopt a lot of American ideas, including the concept of long term dating. The issue was that her parents had been on one date to determine compatibility and were soon after married. So, naturally they were uncomfortable and suspicious of an American boy showing interest in their daughter. They did, however, allow the relationship to continue because they acknowledged that they were no longer in Iran. <\/span><\/p>It is usually asserted that in order to properly assimilate into a culture, one must live in it, socialize with it, and learn from experience within it. My own subconscious decision to only associate with other people with Indian heritage flies in the face of this concept. Instead of socializing within the new culture, I was clinging to the familiar and rejecting the new. Over the course of years, I had learnt to regulate myself within in such a distinct society as from where I came from. Adjusting to a diverse culture is difficult however, I am fortunate enough to have given the opportunity to experience what it is like moving from one culture to another because it gives me insight into various prospects of the world that we are living in.\n<\/p>When one moves abroad, leaves their homeland behind, there are two choices. They could either pine for home and long to go back, or they could accept that the place they are in is their new home, and that they should mingle with the people around and not just limit themselves to closed communities that are usually hostile to outside interactions. Home is where the heart is, after all, so put your heart to wherever you go and settle, because as long as you refuse to assimilate and be comfortable with where you live, you will always feel out of place. <\/p>"}]

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