Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin

“Remember, it’s an in-between space. neither here nor there. It is dangerous.” (Badami 110) Diasporas overtly or covertly are always burdened with the pangs of nostalgia and regret that results from a ‘hyphenated identity’. This ambiguous identity fails to clearly demarcate the place in which diasporas can settle themselves and look at the things and relate to them. The term ‘diaspora’ has never been approached with a universal, conventional idea but is always seen with different…

immigrants that were coming to Canada. They helped to control the amount of Chinese people coming in to Canada by requiring them to pay a ten dollar duty on each Chinese person wanting to enter Canada. The Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 was Canada’s first piece of legislation to exclude immigrants on the basis of their ethnic origin (Van Dyk, 2002). They changed the amount to enter Canada from ten dollars to fifty dollar and later in 1900 it raised again to one-hundred dollars and finally in…

The Tourism Ministry has provided these gaps and glitches in its annual report which are the problems and really an eye opener for the tour operation business as Medical Tourism is the money spinner for the tour operators. The Indian tour operators and medical fraternity is targeting for the clients who come from African and West Asian countries as more than 80 per cent of the total target medical tourists in the country is estimated to be contributed by these countries and they…

delay. They also conduct surprise audits, just to ensure that the quality of the supply chain is maintained. Initially, Mongini retail shops had to follow the telephonic ordering system. This required manual efforts and was very time consuming as the person had to name each and every item he required. Also, there were chances of mistakes being committed because of certain communication barriers which would result in losses both to the bakery and the retail shops. This telephonic system was…

anti-colonial movements and postmodern critique of colonialism as a project of modernity one can find ideas that preceded postcolonial theory. The most important feature of postcolonialism is a shift in the dominant ways in which relations between Western and non-Western people and their worlds were viewed. It meant to look from the other side of the photograph (Young 2003). Edward Said’s Orientalism can be said to have founded one such possible tradition of postcolonialism. The divisions…

Enculturation is the process of being educated to think or act like the other members of the shared social community while acculturation refers to the process of gaining a new and different culture which often happen in immigrant groups. ''While every person is subject to enculturation, the acquisition of the cognitive category of his or her society, only those who move from one culture to another are subject to acculturation.'' (Renteln, ‘The Culture Defense’ 13) The third concept is…

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Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…