05-03-2007, 06:11 PM
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Putting a child in a daycare center as a way of outsourcing your obligations to him, is the best possible way to transform his culture completely. He will grow up with little or no connection to the language, culture and values of his parents.
Sometimes I wonder if it makes any difference at all, considering that the parents want exactly this - the little yuppie schoolboy with as few traditional hang-ups as possible, speaking English fluently. No matter, they can always wax eloquent on their "Hindu heritage", and write Hindu narratives.
Putting a child in a daycare center as a way of outsourcing your obligations to him, is the best possible way to transform his culture completely. He will grow up with little or no connection to the language, culture and values of his parents.
Sometimes I wonder if it makes any difference at all, considering that the parents want exactly this - the little yuppie schoolboy with as few traditional hang-ups as possible, speaking English fluently. No matter, they can always wax eloquent on their "Hindu heritage", and write Hindu narratives.