For this paper I chose to interview a friend of mine, a former co-worker, Ramesh. We worked together several years ago at Wal-Mart. I would spend my breaks with him and his wife. His culture is very interesting to me as well as his opinion of his home culture. He has lived in America for many years, he moved here with his new wife as a young man to go to college.
Ramesh is from a very wealthy Hindu family in south India, his father is the prince over a territory there. He moved here with his wife in the early 1970’s. He spoke of the beautiful surroundings and the lush gardens his mother had that had a small creek running though it, a rare sight in the desert. He described the heat and how the temperature was always like American summers, even …show more content…
His family had a room dedicated to worship in the home where they would go to pray and make offerings to the gods several times a day. Only on Hindu holy days did they go to the temple. The Hindu bible is the Vedas; they worship one supreme god, Brahman, which is over all of the other nearly 330 million other smaller gods. A person who is born deformed or with special needs is worshipped in India was gods. They see this kind of thing as a positive thing rather than a bad thing. Ramesh and his wife no longer consider themselves Hindu, although their parents still after 40 years do not know this. It would be bring shame to their families in …show more content…
The worst thing as a child that I remember was being drug to church with my mother; I was still not forced to believe what she believed. During my friendship with Ramesh and his wife my eyes have definitely been opened to the things we take for granted here in America. Just the minimal Ramesh has described about the Hindu religion and the rituals and regulations seem overwhelming. They must memorize all of these things. I am more appreciative of the freedom I have to worship and believe as I wish to even eat what I wish. When made aware of the differences in the Indian culture from ours, we seem to have it made here in America. It kind of amazes me that even at 60+ years of age Ramesh still chooses to not tell his parents that he does not practice the Hindu religion
Ramesh is from a very wealthy Hindu family in south India, his father is the prince over a territory there. He moved here with his wife in the early 1970’s. He spoke of the beautiful surroundings and the lush gardens his mother had that had a small creek running though it, a rare sight in the desert. He described the heat and how the temperature was always like American summers, even …show more content…
His family had a room dedicated to worship in the home where they would go to pray and make offerings to the gods several times a day. Only on Hindu holy days did they go to the temple. The Hindu bible is the Vedas; they worship one supreme god, Brahman, which is over all of the other nearly 330 million other smaller gods. A person who is born deformed or with special needs is worshipped in India was gods. They see this kind of thing as a positive thing rather than a bad thing. Ramesh and his wife no longer consider themselves Hindu, although their parents still after 40 years do not know this. It would be bring shame to their families in …show more content…
The worst thing as a child that I remember was being drug to church with my mother; I was still not forced to believe what she believed. During my friendship with Ramesh and his wife my eyes have definitely been opened to the things we take for granted here in America. Just the minimal Ramesh has described about the Hindu religion and the rituals and regulations seem overwhelming. They must memorize all of these things. I am more appreciative of the freedom I have to worship and believe as I wish to even eat what I wish. When made aware of the differences in the Indian culture from ours, we seem to have it made here in America. It kind of amazes me that even at 60+ years of age Ramesh still chooses to not tell his parents that he does not practice the Hindu religion