Re: Loose dogs, having fun


"Melinda Shore" <shore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message:

This guy has a family (wife and twin daughters) and they're
living with his parents in Bangalore while his house is
being built.

Bet the wife is real happy. I have wonderful in-laws, but I wouldn't want
to live with them for an extended period of time.

His family is coming over in March. He says
that because his daughters are only three he feels that they
won't miss much by going to US schools for a few months and
in the meantime they'll have a great cross-cultural
experience.

I'm not sure what if anything they'll retain, though. They'll do fine in US
"schools" - does he know that the kinda thing kids do over there when
they're 3 isn't the same as what they do here in play school?

To the extent that our Indian engineers want to
come to the US it's to be closer to the mainstream of the
company, but mostly we're finding that we've got more people
wanting to return to India than we do wanting to move to the
US. And then there's the visa situation, anyway.

We're finding that to be a fairly common line of thinking among friends and
family, both Indian and Chinese. Not very many act upon it, however. I
don't think anyone wants to deal with the hassle of moving from one country
to another (although one of my cousins did it last year, and LOVES it back
home).

Why do you think that is?

I've had this discussion with other Indian/Pakistani friends, and they're
not sure. The primary difference between the two countries is religion, so
the general line of thinking has been that the way the religion is
taught/interpreted/made a part of daily life probably has something to do
with it. One of my Pakistani friends suggested that there is sufficient
amount of battle and bloodshed among the islamic people (historically) that
has perhaps carried over to the present day as to account for it. I am a
little baffled, because we are essentially the same people with similar
history going back hundreds of years, yet our recent history is
substantially different from one another.

Suja


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