The Guyanese Indian .....

a friend shared this with me.  I am re-sharing .....



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brown-girl...99132.html

Once in a while my paternal grandmother sings Islamic devotional couplets in Hindi

and explains what she understands them to mean

based on her grandparents' translations of them decades ago.

Meseret , thanks for sharing this : a must  read for Goog Lee 

My parents never wanted me to imitate this accent because, for many, it is regarded as a thing of shame.
To be hidden away like a botched tattoo or a drunken mistake.
It is an illustration of how the poorest members of Indian society spoke when English was first forced upon them.

"Speak properly!" my parents said, when I playfully accented my words.

[size=12pt] "You are an American."[/size]

"You are not Guyanese-American. You are just American. You were born here."


On the multi-cultural day at school, they didn't understand [size=12pt]why I had to create a poster about Guyana.[/size]


"You are American. Make a board about America, nah?"

                                                        ::LOL:: ::LOL::

Chairman , your cousin book is referneced here ! 

Gaitri Bahadur : Coolie Women.

i saw that as i read.

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Meseret , thanks for sharing this : a must  read for Goog Lee 

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Googs , we hear you were belting out some Munajats and Ghazals...

last night during birthday Cake cutting ! 

kakkabelly would be green with envy 

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excellent article, btw!