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Indian Cultural Conflict

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...I decided to take a bus downtown. It was a rainy day, but just a light drizzle. Nevertheless, I took shelter under the awning at the bus stop, where a middle-aged, friendly-looking woman was already standing. She smiled and we began having the sort of conversation that occurs between strangers, We talked mainly about the weather and the bus schedule. The woman seemed to want to continue the conversation and explained that she liked hearing me speak because of my accent.
"I just love the way you talk," she said in her thick American drawl, obviously, not realizing that her speech had an accent of its own. "Where are you from?"
"India," I replied. Suddenly the woman's manner changed completely and a look of deep concern came over her face.
"Oh, I've heard about India. So many poor." She clucked her tongue sympathetically, but also with a slight air of superiority that seemed to me to indicate that she felt that all Indians were starving...

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